Last and first frost dates in Annecy

When is the last frost in Annecy?

The last frost in Annecy usually comes around 15 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 25 March, while corn waits until 12 May. The first autumn frost follows around 14 November, about 213 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 Annecy

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 5 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 48 days after it.

Frost dates near Annecy

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Chambéry (5 April) and latest in Aosta (6 June).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Annecy

Within 15 km of Annecy OpenStreetMap lists 14 garden centres, 4 farm-supply shops, 7 markets and 19 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Botanic, 2 km away.

• Botanic — garden centre
  Rue du Pré de la Danse, 74940 Annecy-le-Vieux · 2 km
• Marché Place des Romains — market
  Tue 07:00–17:00 · 1 km
• Au rendez-vous du terroir — farm shop
  Impasse du Viéran 6, 74960 Annecy · Tue–Fri 09:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–13:00 · 3 km · aurendezvousduterroir.fr
• Armataffet — garden centre
  Mon–Sat 09:00–12:00, 14:00–19:00; Sun closed · 3 km
• Marché de Novel — market
  Avenue de France · Thu 08:00–12:00 · 1 km
• Miam par les Vergers Tissots — farm shop
  Rue du Goléron 53, 74370 Annecy · 3 km

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Annecy by month

Average weather in Annecy over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June (22.2 °C), July (24.5 °C) and August (24.7 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-1.6 °C), February (-0.3 °C) and December (-0.4 °C). About 1329 mm of rain falls in a year, on 146 days; May is the wettest month (141 mm) and August the driest (80 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).