Last and first frost dates in Erfurt

When is the last frost in Erfurt?

The last frost in Erfurt usually comes around 23 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 2 April, while corn waits until 30 April. The first autumn frost follows around 7 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 Erfurt

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 22 days after it.

Frost dates near Erfurt

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Halle (Saale) (13 April) and latest in Göttingen (27 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Erfurt

Within 15 km of Erfurt OpenStreetMap lists 9 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 6 plant nurseries, 3 markets and 15 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Dehner, 2 km away.

• Dehner — garden centre
  Weimarische Straße 39a, 99099 Erfurt · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00 · 2 km · dehner.de
• RWZ Agrarzentrum Walschleben — farm supply
  Bahnhofstraße 10, 99189 Walschleben · 11 km · rwz.de
• Zierpflanzen Buckenauer — plant nursery
  Schmidtstedter Flur 25, 99099 Erfurt · 3 km · gaertnerei-buckenauer.de
• Erfurter Wochenmarkt — market
  Mon–Sat 06:30–14:00 · 1 km · erfurt.de
• Hofladen Gloria — farm shop
  Drei-Quellen-Straße 23, 99094 Erfurt · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Sat 08:00–14:00 · 3 km · gaertnerei-gloria.de
• Gartencenter Zimmermann — garden centre
  Leipziger Straße 75b, 99085 Erfurt · 2 km · gartencenter-erfurt.de

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Erfurt by month

Average weather in Erfurt over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.5–24.7 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-0.9 °C) and February (-0.4 °C). About 645 mm of rain falls in a year, on 135 days; May is the wettest month (63 mm) and November the driest (41 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).