Valdosta, GA 31603 Frost Dates
31603, near Valdosta, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
Valdosta sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Valdosta'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.
The actual range around Valdosta's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Valdosta against the rest of the dataset
About 267 days separate Valdosta's last and first frost, putting it 5,828 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 108 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31603: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Valdosta's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Valdosta's dates instead of trusting one.