Last and first frost dates in Ghent

When is the last frost in Ghent?

The last frost in Ghent usually comes around 12 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 22 March, while corn waits until 20 April. The first autumn frost follows around 24 November, about 226 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 Ghent

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 31 days after it.

Frost dates near Ghent

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Bruges (27 March) and latest in Brussels (10 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Ghent

Within 15 km of Ghent OpenStreetMap lists 31 garden centres, 2 plant nurseries, 8 markets and 9 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Aveve, 4 km away.

• Aveve — garden centre
  Aakstraat 6 · Mon–Fri 09:00–18:30; Sat 09:00–18:00 · 4 km · aveve.be
• allpalms — plant nursery
  Mon–Fri 08:00–18:30; Sat 08:00–12:00 · 6 km · allpalms.be
• Bloemenmarkt — market
  Sat–Sun 07:00–16:00 · 0 km · visit.gent.be
• Bij Boer Jan — farm shop
  Gavergrachtstraat 143, 9031 Drongen · 7 km
• Aveve — garden centre
  Mariakerksesteenweg 283, 9031 Drongen · Tue–Fri 09:00–18:30; Sat 09:00–18:00 · 5 km · aveve.be
• Tweedehands fietsenmarkt — market
  Sun 07:00–13:00 · 1 km · visit.gent.be

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Ghent
• Selling your own harvest in Belgium

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Ghent by month

Average weather in Ghent over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.5–23.5 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.6 °C. About 790 mm of rain falls in a year, on 148 days; January is the wettest month (83 mm) and April the driest (48 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).