Galatia, IL 62935 Frost Dates
Galatia, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Galatia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Galatia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Galatia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Galatia places 21,254 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 525 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62935's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Galatia can differ from the 62935 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Galatia's frost date answer different questions.