Albany, GA 31703 Frost Dates
31703, near Albany, GA: the frost window
Around 03/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 192 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 260 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 Albany, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Albany's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/08 isn't a guarantee
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albany against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 260 frost-free days, Albany places 6,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 140 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31703: the frost range, on how to read the range around Albany's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Albany can differ from the 31703 normal.