Last and first frost dates in Cosenza

When is the last frost in Cosenza?

The last frost in Cosenza 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 23 April. The first autumn frost follows around 30 November, about 234 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 Cosenza

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

Frost dates near Cosenza

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Messina (25 January) and latest in Potenza (15 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Cosenza

Within 15 km of Cosenza OpenStreetMap lists 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery and 1 market (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest farm supply to the city centre is Agri Store, 7 km away.

• Agri Store — farm supply
  Via Verticelli 3, 87059 Casali del Manco · Mon–Sun 08:00–12:30, 15:30–19:30 · 7 km · facebook.com
• Campagna Amica — market
  Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 87100 Cosenza · Tue–Sun 08:30–13:30; Wed–Fri closed · 1 km · campagnamica.it

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Cosenza
• Selling your own harvest in Italy

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Cosenza by month

Average weather in Cosenza over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (24.1–28.5 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0.5 °C. About 1240 mm of rain falls in a year, on 141 days; November is the wettest month (192 mm) and July the driest (28 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).