Last and first frost dates in Amiens

When is the last frost in Amiens?

The last frost in Amiens usually comes around 5 April: 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 15 March, while corn waits until 20 April. The first autumn frost follows around 21 November, about 230 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 Amiens

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 2 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 42 days after it.

Frost dates near Amiens

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Kortrijk (4 April) and latest in Mons (10 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Amiens

Within 15 km of Amiens OpenStreetMap lists 11 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 7 markets and 6 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Gamm Vert, 2 km away.

• Gamm Vert — garden centre
  Rue du Faubourg de Hem 378 · Mon–Sat 09:00–12:00, 14:00–19:00; Sun closed · 2 km · gammvert.fr
• Agri Santerre — farm supply
  Route de Guyencourt, 80250 Ailly-sur-Noye · Mon–Fri 08:30–12:00, 13:30–17:30 · 15 km · agrisanterre.com
• La Halle au Frais — market
  Mon–Sun 08:30–20:30; Sat 08:30–12:30 · 1 km · halleaufrais.fr
• Hortillon de Lune — farm shop · sells: vegetables
  Impasse Marcel 4bis, Rivery · Fri 16:00–19:00 · 1 km · hortillondelune.fr
• Jardiland — garden centre
  Avenue de l'Europe 150, 80080 Amiens · Mon–Sat 09:30–19:00; Sun 10:00–12:30, 14:30–18:30 · 3 km · jardiland.com
• Marché Hebdomadaire — market
  Wed 08:00–13:00 · 1 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Amiens
• Selling your own harvest in France

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Amiens by month

Average weather in Amiens over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.2–23.1 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.1 °C. About 860 mm of rain falls in a year, on 148 days; January is the wettest month (95 mm) and April the driest (53 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).