Last and first frost dates in Cuenca

When is the last frost in Cuenca?

The last frost in Cuenca usually comes around 9 December: 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 18 November, while cucumber waits until 16 December.

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 Cuenca

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 Cuenca

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Cuenca

Within 15 km of Cuenca OpenStreetMap lists 5 garden centres, 6 farm-supply shops, 21 markets and 5 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Ecuaquimica, 2 km away.

• Ecuaquimica — garden centre
  Avenida España 1409 · 2 km · ecuaquimica.com.ec
• Mercado 3 de Noviembre — market
  Mariscal Lamar 12-86 · 1 km
• Mercado 27 de Febrero — market
  Adolfo Torres, Cuenca · 2 km
• Prefectura del Azuay — market
  Avenida Max Uhle · 2 km
• Mercado agroecológico (Biocentro) — market
  Rodrigo de Triana, 010205 Cuenca · Miercoles, Sabado y Domingo 6:00 - 12:00 · 4 km
• Plataforma Itinerante de Narancay — market
  Beethoven, Cuenca · 5 km

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Cuenca by month

Average weather in Cuenca over 2016–2025: the warmest month is November. No month averages 20 °C by day; the warmest, November, reaches 18.4 °C. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in August, average 6.6 °C. About 1652 mm of rain falls in a year, on 281 days; February is the wettest month (188 mm) and August the driest (66 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).