Garden City, GA 31415 Frost Dates
31415, near Garden City, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Garden City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Garden City's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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
03/02 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
At roughly 270 frost-free days, Garden City places 5,568 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 34 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31415: the frost range, on how to read the range around Garden City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Garden City can differ from the 31415 normal.