Last and first frost dates in Dresden

When is the last frost in Dresden?

The last frost in Dresden usually comes around 16 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 26 March, while corn waits until 29 April. The first autumn frost follows around 18 November, about 216 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 Dresden

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 5 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 39 days after it.

Frost dates near Dresden

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Most (17 April) and latest in Ústí nad Labem (27 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Dresden

Within 15 km of Dresden OpenStreetMap lists 20 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 12 plant nurseries, 23 markets and 34 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Pflanzen und Kräutermarkt im alten Heizhaus, 2 km away.

• Pflanzen und Kräutermarkt im alten Heizhaus — garden centre
  Stetzscher Straße 4, 01097 Dresden · 2026 Apr 25–2026 May 23 Mon–Thu 10:00–18:00; 2026 Apr 25–2026 May 23 Fri 10:00–19:00; 2026 Apr 25–2026 May 23 Sat 09:00–19:00; 2026 Apr 25–2026 May 23 Sun 10:00–16:00 · 2 km · kontakt97691.wixsite.com
• Futtermittel und Kleintierzuchtbedarf — farm supply
  Königsbrücker Straße 103, 01099 Dresden · 3 km
• Stadtgärtnerei — plant nursery
  Bodenbacher Straße 53, 01277 Dresden · 4 km
• Sachsenmarkt - Lingnerallee — market
  Fri 08:00–16:00 · 1 km · dresden.de
• Hof Lädchen — farm shop
  Saalhausener Straße, 01159 Dresden · Fri 15:00–17:30 · 5 km · wandelgrund.org
• Eberhard Hermann Saat- und Pflanzgut — garden centre
  Hofmühlenstraße 20, 01187 Dresden · Mon–Fri 09:00–17:30; Sat 09:00–13:00 · 3 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Dresden
• Selling your own harvest in Germany

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Dresden by month

Average weather in Dresden over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.6–24.9 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-1.3 °C) and February (-0.5 °C). About 719 mm of rain falls in a year, on 141 days; July is the wettest month (72 mm) and April the driest (44 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).