Last and first frost dates in Dundee

When is the last frost in Dundee?

The last frost in Dundee usually comes around 28 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 7 April, while corn waits until 22 May. The first autumn frost follows around 12 November, about 198 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 Dundee

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 9 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 49 days after it.

Frost dates near Dundee

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Aberdeen (10 April) and latest in Stirling (29 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Dundee

Within 15 km of Dundee OpenStreetMap lists 4 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 2 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is The Village Garden Centre, 6 km away.

• The Village Garden Centre — garden centre
  Brook Street, Dundee · 6 km
• Dundee Farmers' Market — market
  City Square, DD1 3BG Dundee · Sat [3] 09:00–16:00; Jan closed · 1 km · dundeesfarmersmarket.wordpress.com
• Mill of Inverarity Farm Shop — farm shop
  Mill Of Inverarity, DD8 2JN Forfar · 14 km
• Dobbies — garden centre
  Ethiebeaton Park, DD5 4HB Dundee · 9 km · dobbies.com
• Errol Sunday Market — market
  Sun 10:00–16:00 · 15 km · errolsundaymarket.co.uk

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Dundee
• Selling your own harvest in the United Kingdom

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Dundee by month

Average weather in Dundee over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. No month averages 20 °C by day; the warmest, July, reaches 18.3 °C. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0.7 °C. About 940 mm of rain falls in a year, on 161 days; October is the wettest month (114 mm) and April the driest (52 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).