Last and first frost dates in Curicó

When is the last frost in Curicó?

The last frost in Curicó usually comes around 25 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 4 August, while corn waits until 19 September. The first autumn frost follows around 7 June, about 286 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 Curicó

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 15 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 51 days after it.

Frost dates near Curicó

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Valparaíso (6 August) and latest in Chillán (30 August).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Curicó

Within 15 km of Curicó OpenStreetMap lists 1 plant nursery, 8 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Feria de las Pulgas, 2 km away.

• Feria de las Pulgas — market
  Mataquito 1145 · 2 km
• New Holland — farm shop
  Avenida Arturo Alessandri Palma · 3 km
• Supermercado Andrea — market
  Lago Vichuquén · 2 km
• La Super Feria — market
  Avenida Juan Luis Diez · 3 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Curicó
• Selling your own harvest in Chile

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Curicó by month

Average weather in Curicó over 2016–2025: the warmest month is January. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: October–April (20.8–30.6 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: January (30.6 °C) and February (30.3 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in July, average 3.5 °C. About 715 mm of rain falls in a year, on 55 days; June is the wettest month (189 mm) and December the driest (4 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).