Sardis City, AL 35956 Frost Dates
35956, near Sardis City, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
Sardis City sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Sardis City's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Sardis City's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sardis City against the rest of the dataset
Sardis City's growing season runs about 240 days, ranking 8,701 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 303 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35956: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Sardis City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Sardis City's dates instead of trusting one.