Last and first frost dates in Cochabamba

When is the last frost in Cochabamba?

The last frost in Cochabamba usually comes around 14 August: 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 24 July, while corn waits until 21 August. The first autumn frost follows around 22 June, about 312 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 Cochabamba

The day the top 7 cm of soil first averages each temperature over a week, median of 2016–2025 (ERA5 via Open-Meteo).

Frost dates near Cochabamba

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Sucre (5 August) and latest in Potosí (21 November).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Cochabamba

Within 15 km of Cochabamba OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 3 farm-supply shops, 10 plant nurseries, 85 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Asvisa Campo Verde, 3 km away.

• Asvisa Campo Verde — garden centre
  Avenida Melchor Pérez de Olguín, Cochabamba · Mon–Sun 08:00–21:00; public holidays closed · 3 km
• Agrotécnica — farm supply · sells seed
  Calle Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas 1439, Cochabamba · Mon–Fri 08:30–12:30, 14:30–18:30; Sat 08:30–12:30; Sun closed · 3 km
• Vivero Nuevo Amanecer — plant nursery
  Avenida Melchor Pérez de Olguín 1456, Cochabamba · Mon–Sat 08:30–06:00; Sun 09:00–13:00 · 2 km
• Mercado 25 de Mayo — market
  Calle Jordán, Cochabamba · Mon–Sun 07:00–20:00 · 1 km
• La Granjita de Paucarpata — farm shop
  Avenida América 1080, Cochabamba · 3 km
• Jardin Vertical — garden centre
  Avenida Suarez Miranda, Quillacollo · 13 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Cochabamba
• Selling your own harvest in Bolivia

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Cochabamba by month

Average weather in Cochabamba over 2016–2025: the warmest month is October. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May and July–December (20.2–23.2 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in June, average 3.8 °C. About 1009 mm of rain falls in a year, on 126 days; February is the wettest month (241 mm) and June the driest (2 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).