Saraland, AL 36571 Frost Dates
Saraland, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/03, roughly 187 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
Saraland 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 13 weeks until Saraland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Saraland's last frost
03/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Saraland against the rest of the dataset
Saraland's growing season runs about 268 days, ranking 5,740 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 78 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36571's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Saraland's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Saraland's dates instead of trusting one.