Pakistan: frost dates by city

The average last spring frost and first autumn frost in 12 cities of Pakistan, from ten years of weather. The last spring frost comes earliest in Peshawar and latest in Quetta.

City	Last spring frost	First autumn frost	Frost-free days	Soil at 10 °C	Tomato: planting out	Places to buy (OpenStreetMap)
Bahawalpur	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	3
Faisalabad	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	14
Gujranwala	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	8
Hyderabad (Pakistan)	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	10
Karachi	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	271
Lahore	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	76
Multan	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	6
Sukkur	none in ten years	none in ten years	—	already in the first week of January	—	—
Peshawar	17 January	none in ten years	—	10 January	from 25 February	55
Murree	25 January	19 December	328 days	14 February	22 March – 29 August	—
Islamabad	12 February	none in ten years	—	16 February	from 22 March	63
Quetta	13 February	9 December	299 days	24 February	19 March – 19 August	18

The last spring frost comes 27 days later in Quetta (13 February) than in Peshawar (17 January). The frost-free season lasts 299–328 days. The top 7 cm of soil reaches 10 °C first in Peshawar (10 January) and last in Quetta (24 February).

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Median of 2016–2025 for the 25 km grid cell of the city: the last day at or below 0 °C in spring and the first in autumn (ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo). In a cold year a frost can come a week or two later — Greenly warns 48 hours ahead.