Athens-Clarke County, GA 30603 Frost Dates
Athens-Clarke County, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 232 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Athens-Clarke County, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Athens-Clarke County's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Athens-Clarke County's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Athens-Clarke County against the rest of the dataset
About 232 days separate Athens-Clarke County's last and first frost, putting it 10,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 470 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30603's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Athens-Clarke County's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Athens-Clarke County can differ from the 30603 normal.