Franklin Springs, GA 30639 Frost Dates
30639, near Franklin Springs, GA: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Franklin Springs 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
Franklin Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Franklin Springs's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Franklin Springs against the rest of the dataset
Franklin Springs's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,317 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 871 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30639: local microclimates, on what one yard in Franklin Springs can differ from the 30639 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Franklin Springs's frost date answer different questions.