Last and first frost dates in Florence

When is the last frost in Florence?

The last frost in Florence usually comes around 23 March: 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 March, while corn waits until 5 April. The first autumn frost follows around 27 November, about 249 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 Florence

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 7 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 41 days after it.

Frost dates near Florence

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Livorno (22 January) and latest in Pisa (9 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Florence

Within 15 km of Florence OpenStreetMap lists 6 garden centres, 13 markets and 6 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Centro Agricolo Toscano, 3 km away.

• Centro Agricolo Toscano — garden centre
  Via Villamagna 146 · Mon–Sat 07:30–19:30 · 3 km
• Leather market — market
  Via Nazionale 37 R, Firenze · 1 km
• Bottega Agroecologica La Campagna in Città — farm shop
  Mon–Wed 09:30–13:30, 15:30–19:30; Thu 09:30–13:00; Sat 09:30–13:30 · 1 km
• Mondo Rose — garden centre
  Mon–Sat 08:00–12:30; Sun closed · 10 km
• Campagna amica — market
  Wed–Sat 08:30–14:00; Thu closed · 2 km
• Fattoria di Poggiopiano — farm shop
  Via dei Bassi 13, 50014 Fiesole · 7 km · poggiopiano.it

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Florence
• Selling your own harvest in Italy

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Florence by month

Average weather in Florence over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (20.8–31.5 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (31.4 °C) and August (31.5 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.5 °C. About 1061 mm of rain falls in a year, on 124 days; November is the wettest month (140 mm) and July the driest (31 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).