Last and first frost dates in Bochum

When is the last frost in Bochum?

The last frost in Bochum usually comes around 10 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 20 March, while corn waits until 17 April. The first autumn frost follows around 20 November, about 224 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 Bochum

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 6 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 33 days after it.

Frost dates near Bochum

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Düsseldorf (4 April) and latest in Hagen (26 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Bochum

Within 15 km of Bochum OpenStreetMap lists 29 garden centres, 5 farm-supply shops, 5 plant nurseries, 42 markets and 34 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Grüner Laden, 2 km away.

• Grüner Laden — garden centre
  Vierhausstraße 2, 44807 Bochum · Mon–Fri 09:00–18:30; Sat 09:00–17:00; Sun 10:00–14:00; public holidays closed · 2 km · gruenerladencenter.de
• Raiffeisenmarkt — farm supply
  Hansastraße 88, 44866 Bochum · Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–14:00 · 5 km · raiffeisenruhrgebiet.de
• Ronsiek — plant nursery
  Pferdebachstraße 103a, 58454 Witten · 9 km · ronsiek.ruhr
• Buddenbergplatz — market
  Wed 07:00–13:00; Sat 07:00–14:00 · 0 km · bochum.treffpunkt-wochenmarkt.de
• Bauernlädchen im Kirchviertel — farm shop
  Brenscheder Straße 38a, 44799 Bochum · Tue–Fri 09:00–18:00; Sat 09:00–14:00 · 3 km · bauernlaedchen-bochum.de
• Gartencenter Augsburg — garden centre
  Am Ruhrpark 7, 44805 Bochum · Mon–Fri 09:00–18:30, Sat 09:00–18:00, Sun 11:00–16:00; public holidays closed · 5 km · gartencenter-augsburg.de

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Bochum
• Selling your own harvest in Germany

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Bochum by month

Average weather in Bochum over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.3–23.9 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0.8 °C. About 909 mm of rain falls in a year, on 160 days; January is the wettest month (96 mm) and April the driest (64 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).