Last and first frost dates in Albacete

When is the last frost in Albacete?

The last frost in Albacete usually comes around 21 March: that is the median of 2016–2025, so in about half of those years the last night at or below 0 °C came later. Hardy crops start before it and frost-tender ones only after it: in the table below arugula can go into open ground from 28 February, while corn waits until 28 March. The first autumn frost follows around 26 November, about 250 days later: harvest or cover frost-tender crops before then.

When to sow and plant

Planting out: a week after the last frost once the soil is warm enough for the crop; frost-hardy crops three weeks before it; an unheated greenhouse three weeks earlier. Seedlings are sown so they are ready on that day. Each window starts on the Greenly calendar date and ends on the last day that still leaves the crop’s days to harvest (from its card) before the average first autumn frost, plus six weeks of picking for crops harvested over weeks (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins, watermelons, beans) — our rule; earlier in the window is safer.

When the soil warms up in Albacete

The day the top 7 cm of soil first averages each temperature over a week, median of 2016–2025 (ERA5 via Open-Meteo). The soil reaches 10 °C 21 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 39 days after it.

Frost dates near Albacete

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Elche (15 January) and latest in Cuenca (Spain) (5 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Albacete

Within 15 km of Albacete OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre, 11 farm-supply shops, 3 plant nurseries and 2 markets (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest farm supply to the city centre is Albaverde, 1 km away.

• Albaverde — farm supply
  Paseo Circunvalación 65 · 1 km
• Mercado de Villacerrada — market
  Mon–Thu, Sat 08:00–14:30; Fri 08:00–14:30, 17:30–20:30 · 1 km
• Jubasa — farm supply
  Calle Feria 113 · 1 km
• Mercado de Carretas — market
  Mon–Sat 07:30–14:30 · 1 km
• Joaquín Rosa Faura — farm supply
  Calle Manuel de Falla 2 · 1 km
• Albacete Ganadera — farm supply
  Avenida Ramón y Cajal 11 · 1 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Albacete
• Selling your own harvest in Spain

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Albacete by month

Average weather in Albacete over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (22–33.9 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (33.9 °C) and August (32.8 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.4 °C. About 391 mm of rain falls in a year, on 66 days; March is the wettest month (69 mm) and July the driest (7 mm).

Average of the daily highs and lows, rain per month and days with at least 1 mm (ERA5 via Open-Meteo, the same grid cell as the frost dates).

Planted in autumn

From a month before the first autumn frost, so the roots grow before winter, to the late-planting limit on each crop’s page (about two weeks before the ground freezes, by ten years of weather).