Junction City, GA 31058 Frost Dates
31058, near Junction City, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Junction City sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Junction City's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 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.
Junction City against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Junction City's last and first frost, putting it 13,933 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 827 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31058: the frost range, on how to read the range around Junction City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Junction City can differ from the 31058 normal.