Athens-Clarke County, GA 30609 Frost Dates
30609, near Athens-Clarke County, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 232 days after the last spring frost.
Athens-Clarke County sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Athens-Clarke County's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Athens-Clarke County's growing season runs about 232 days, ranking 10,023 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 476 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30609: local microclimates, on what one yard in Athens-Clarke County can differ from the 30609 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Athens-Clarke County's frost date answer different questions.