Last and first frost dates in Ancona

When is the last frost in Ancona?

The last frost in Ancona usually comes around 16 February: 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 26 January, while corn waits until 27 March. The first autumn frost follows around 11 December, about 298 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 Ancona

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 11 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 63 days after it.

Frost dates near Ancona

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Rimini (9 February) and latest in Perugia (7 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Ancona

Within 15 km of Ancona OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop and 5 markets (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Ciavattini Garden, 7 km away.

• Ciavattini Garden — garden centre
  Strada Frazione Varano 279, 60131 Ancona · 7 km · ciavattinigarden.it
• Consorzio Agrario Provinciale Ancona — farm supply
  Via Loreto 15, 60126 Ancona · 2 km
• Mercato delle Erbe — market
  07:30–12:45, 16:30–19:30; Mar Sun[–1]–Oct Sun[–1]: 07:30–12:45, 17:00–20:00; Sun closed · 1 km
• Garden Claudia — garden centre
  Via Clementina 19 · 13 km
• Mercato di via Maratta — market
  Mon–Sat 07:00–13:00 · 1 km
• Mercato di Piazza d'Armi — market
  Piazza d'Armi, 60127 Ancona · 2 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Ancona
• Selling your own harvest in Italy

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Ancona by month

Average weather in Ancona over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (20.9–30.4 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (30.4 °C) and August (30.3 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 2.8 °C. About 752 mm of rain falls in a year, on 106 days; May is the wettest month (86 mm) and July the driest (40 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).