Thomasville, GA 31799 Frost Dates
Thomasville, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
Thomasville 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 Thomasville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Thomasville's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 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.
Thomasville against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Thomasville's last and first frost, putting it 6,902 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 196 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31799's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Thomasville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Thomasville's dates instead of trusting one.