Winterville, GA 30683 Frost Dates
30683, near Winterville, GA: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winterville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Winterville'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 Winterville's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winterville against the rest of the dataset
Winterville's growing season runs about 217 days, ranking 13,553 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 803 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30683: the frost range, on how to read the range around Winterville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Winterville can differ from the 30683 normal.