Nashville-Davidson, TN 37203 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Nashville-Davidson, TN?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 213 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Nashville-Davidson, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Nashville-Davidson before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Nashville-Davidson's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Nashville-Davidson compares
About 213 days separate Nashville-Davidson's last and first frost, putting it 14,407 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 250 of 770.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Nashville-Davidson can differ from the 37203 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Nashville-Davidson's frost date answer different questions.