Atlanta, GA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053819, 1994 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 858 ft, 33.363, -84.566. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 29	Oct 31
Earliest	Feb 25 (2024)	Oct 10 (2000)
Latest	Apr 25 (2005)	Nov 29 (2024)
Trend	9.7 days earlier per decade	4.5 days later per decade
Years with data	29	30

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

First fall frost (32°F)

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2024	Feb 25	Nov 29	Feb 20	Nov 30
2023	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Mar 14	Oct 19	Mar 13	Nov 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 14	Feb 21	Nov 24
2020	Mar 8	Nov 3	Jan 22	Dec 1
2019	Mar 28	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Mar 23	Nov 10	Mar 15	Nov 29
2017	Mar 17	Oct 30	Mar 16	Dec 10
2016	Mar 22	Nov 11	Feb 14	Nov 22
2015	Mar 29	Nov 15	Mar 29	Nov 24
2014	Mar 27	Nov 2	Mar 14	Nov 14
2013	Mar 29	Oct 26	Mar 4	Nov 13
2012	Mar 10	Oct 31	Feb 13	Nov 25
2011	Apr 6	Oct 21	Feb 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 8	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 7
2009	Apr 8	Oct 19	Mar 5	Dec 5
2008	Apr 16	Oct 28	Mar 25	Nov 17
2007	Apr 10	Oct 30	Apr 8	Nov 7
2006	Mar 27	Oct 14	Mar 27	Nov 4
2005	Apr 25	Oct 26	Mar 6	Nov 18
2004	Apr 1	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 15
2003	Apr 1	Nov 14	Feb 19	Nov 25
2002	Apr 7	Nov 8	Mar 24	Nov 18
2001	Apr 19	Oct 18	Mar 28	Oct 27
2000	Apr 10	Oct 10	Mar 13	Nov 15
1999	Apr 19	Oct 24	Mar 16	Nov 3
1998	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 14	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 23	Feb 18	Nov 16
1996	no data	Oct 20	no data	Nov 3
1995	Apr 2	no data	Mar 11	no data
1994	no data	Nov 23	no data	Nov 25

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.