Albany, GA 31721 Frost Dates
31721, near Albany, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 260 days after the last spring frost.
Albany sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
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
Albany's growing season runs about 260 days, ranking 6,467 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 143 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31721: 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 31721 normal.