Charlotte, TN 37036 Frost Dates
37036, near Charlotte, TN: the frost window
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Charlotte sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Charlotte's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Charlotte against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Charlotte places 18,453 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 563 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37036: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Charlotte's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Charlotte's dates instead of trusting one.