Last and first frost dates in Eskişehir

When is the last frost in Eskişehir?

The last frost in Eskişehir usually comes around 13 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 23 March, while corn waits until 20 April. The first autumn frost follows around 4 November, about 205 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 Eskişehir

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 before the last spring frost and 15 °C 16 days after it.

Frost dates near Eskişehir

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Antalya (2 February) and latest in Ankara (15 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Eskişehir

Within 15 km of Eskişehir OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre, 1 farm-supply shop, 16 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Yenikent Pazarı, 2 km away.

• Yenikent Pazarı — market
  Şehit Yzb. T.Güngör Caddesi, 26050 Eskişehir · Sat · 2 km
• Salı Pazarı — market
  Tue 09:00–19:00 · 4 km
• Uluönder Kapalı Pazarı — market
  Yeşim Sokak 2, 26190 · Thu 07:00–18:00 · 4 km
• Çamlıca Kapalı Pazaryeri — market
  Sat 08:00–20:00 · 5 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Eskişehir
• Selling your own harvest in Turkey

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Eskişehir by month

Average weather in Eskişehir over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–September (21.9–30.8 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (30.3 °C) and August (30.8 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-3 °C), February (-1.6 °C) and December (-0.6 °C). About 407 mm of rain falls in a year, on 86 days; May is the wettest month (60 mm) and July the driest (12 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).