Garden City, GA 31408 Frost Dates
Garden City, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Garden City in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 13 weeks until Garden City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Garden City against the rest of the dataset
Garden City's growing season runs about 270 days, ranking 5,567 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 33 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31408's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Garden City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Garden City's dates instead of trusting one.