Last and first frost dates in Chita

When is the last frost in Chita?

The last frost in Chita usually comes around 19 May: 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 28 April, while corn waits until 26 May. The first autumn frost follows around 23 September, about 127 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 Chita

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 2 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 23 days after it.

Frost dates near Chita

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Blagoveshchensk (28 April) and latest in Bratsk (19 May).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Chita

Within 15 km of Chita OpenStreetMap lists 5 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Витэн, 3 km away.

• Витэн — market
  улица Чкалова 1А · 3 km
• Нарасхват — farm shop
  Mon–Sun 09:00–21:00 · 9 km
• Каштакский — market
  Mon–Fri 08:30–20:00 · 5 km
• Продуктовый магазин — farm shop
  Ленская улица 40А · 16 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Chita
• Selling your own harvest in Russia

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Chita by month

Average weather in Chita over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June (23.5 °C), July (25.1 °C) and August (21.6 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in October–April (-26.5–-3.4 °C). About 394 mm of rain falls in a year, on 61 days; July is the wettest month (109 mm) and January the driest (3 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).