Boston, GA 31626 Frost Dates
Boston, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
Boston 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Boston'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
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Boston against the rest of the dataset
Boston's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,165 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 232 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31626's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Boston's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Boston can differ from the 31626 normal.