Geneva, AL 36340 Frost Dates
36340, near Geneva, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Geneva in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Geneva's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Geneva's last frost
03/23 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.
Geneva against the rest of the dataset
Geneva's growing season runs about 231 days, ranking 10,187 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 469 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36340: local microclimates, on what one yard in Geneva can differ from the 36340 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Geneva's frost date answer different questions.