Last and first frost dates in Bruges

When is the last frost in Bruges?

The last frost in Bruges usually comes around 27 March: 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 6 March, while corn waits until 26 April. The first autumn frost follows around 30 November, about 248 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 Bruges

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 12 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 50 days after it.

Frost dates near Bruges

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Ostend (3 April) and latest in Ghent (12 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Bruges

Within 15 km of Bruges OpenStreetMap lists 12 garden centres, 7 plant nurseries, 1 market and 6 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Groencentrum Brugge, 3 km away.

• Groencentrum Brugge — garden centre
  Zandstraat 374, 8200 Sint-Andries · Mon 13:30–18:30; Tue–Fri 09:00–18:30; Sat 09:00–18:00; public holidays, Sun 09:30–12:30 · 3 km · groencentrum.be
• Jan De Busschere — plant nursery
  Weidestraat 106 · Jul–Sept Mon–Sat 09:00–12:00, Jul–Sept Sat 14:00–17:00 · 2 km · tuinplantendebusschere.be
• Vismarkt — market
  Vismarkt · 1 km
• StubBerries — farm shop
  Rolleweg 16, 8210 Loppem · 7 km
• Tuincenter Snaet — garden centre
  Stationsstraat 4, 8210 Loppem · 6 km · tuincentersnaet.be
• De Zaaier — farm shop
  Korte Akkerstraat 2 · Wed 13:00–19:00; Fri 15:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–17:00 · 12 km · zaaier.be

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Bruges
• Selling your own harvest in Belgium

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Bruges by month

Average weather in Bruges over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June (20.3 °C), July (21.5 °C) and August (22 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 2.4 °C. About 827 mm of rain falls in a year, on 151 days; November is the wettest month (90 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).