Climax, GA 39834 Frost Dates
39834, near Climax, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Climax 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
Climax's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Climax's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Climax against the rest of the dataset
About 250 days separate Climax's last and first frost, putting it 7,592 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 286 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39834: local microclimates, on what one yard in Climax can differ from the 39834 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Climax's frost date answer different questions.