Last and first frost dates in Bradford

When is the last frost in Bradford?

The last frost in Bradford 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 10 May. The first autumn frost follows around 18 November, about 217 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 Bradford

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 3 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 44 days after it.

Frost dates near Bradford

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in York (12 April) and latest in Stoke-on-Trent (27 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Bradford

Within 15 km of Bradford OpenStreetMap lists 25 garden centres, 3 plant nurseries, 14 markets and 13 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Carlton Nurseries, 6 km away.

• Carlton Nurseries — garden centre
  Cottingley Moor Road, BD16 1UU Bingley · 6 km · carltonnurs.wordpress.com
• Darley Street Market — market
  Darley Street, BD1 3HN Bradford · 1 km
• Lane End Farm Shop — farm shop
  Westgate Hill Street 109, BD4 0SF Bradford · Wed–Fri 09:00–17:30; Sat 09:00–16:00; Sun 10:00–16:00 · 6 km · laneendfarmshop.co.uk
• Horsforth Garden Shop — garden centre
  Featherbank Lane · Feb–Nov Fri 19:00–20:00; Mar–May Sat 10:30–11:30 · 9 km
• Shipley Open Market — market
  Mon, Fri, Sat 09:00–16:00 · 5 km
• Ludbrooks Farm Shop — farm shop
  Cottingley Cliffe Road, BD16 1UW · 6 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Bradford
• Selling your own harvest in the United Kingdom

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Bradford by month

Average weather in Bradford over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. No month averages 20 °C by day; the warmest, July, reaches 19.9 °C. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.6 °C. About 924 mm of rain falls in a year, on 164 days; October is the wettest month (96 mm) and April the driest (49 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).