Last and first frost dates in Graz

When is the last frost in Graz?

The last frost in Graz usually comes around 16 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 26 March, while corn waits until 2 May. The first autumn frost follows around 10 November, about 208 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 Graz

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 4 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 35 days after it.

Frost dates near Graz

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Vienna (7 April) and latest in Klagenfurt (21 May).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Graz

Within 15 km of Graz OpenStreetMap lists 24 garden centres, 5 plant nurseries, 30 markets and 47 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Samen Köller, 0 km away.

• Samen Köller — garden centre
  Südtiroler Platz 1, 8020 Graz · Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00; Sat 10:00–15:00 · 0 km
• Obstbaumschule Hubmann — plant nursery
  Höhenstraße 84, 8072 Fernitz-Mellach · 15 km · baumschule-hubmann.at
• Bauernmarkt Kaiser-Josef-Platz — market
  Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Platz, 8010 Graz · Mon–Sat 06:00–13:00; Sun, public holidays closed · 1 km
• Gerlitz Hof - Bauernladen und Heuriger — farm shop
  Andersengasse 1, 8041 Graz · Tue–Wed 08:00–13:30; Thu–Sat 08:00–20:00 · 3 km · bl-gerlitz.at
• Gartenbau Lederleitner — garden centre
  Hilmteichstraße 70, 8010 Graz · Mon–Fri 09:30–19:00; Sat 09:00–17:00 · 2 km
• Grazer Winterwelt — market
  Jahngasse 1-3, 8010 Graz · Jan, Nov–Dec: Mon–Thu, Sun 09:00–19:00; Jan, Nov–Dec: Fri–Sat 09:00–22:00; Feb–Oct: closed · 1 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Graz
• Selling your own harvest in Austria

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Graz by month

Average weather in Graz over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.9–26.1 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-3.8 °C), February (-2.1 °C) and December (-2.7 °C). About 855 mm of rain falls in a year, on 116 days; May is the wettest month (119 mm) and January the driest (33 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).