Garden City, ID 83704 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Garden City, ID?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 179 frost-free days later.
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 Garden City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Garden City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Garden City's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Garden City compares
About 179 days separate Garden City's last and first frost, putting it 25,235 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within ID, it ranks 37 of 320.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Garden City's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Garden City can differ from the 83704 normal.