Garden City, AL 35070 Frost Dates
Garden City, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Garden City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Garden City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Garden City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Garden City places 16,386 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 789 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35070's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Garden City can differ from the 35070 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Garden City's frost date answer different questions.