Last and first frost dates in Hull

When is the last frost in Hull?

The last frost in Hull usually comes around 28 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 7 March, while corn waits until 10 May. The first autumn frost follows around 24 November, about 241 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 Hull

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 19 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 66 days after it.

Frost dates near Hull

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Lincoln (United Kingdom) (1 April) and latest in Leeds (18 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Hull

Within 15 km of Hull OpenStreetMap lists 8 garden centres, 1 plant nursery, 4 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Willerby Cane & Garden Centre, 7 km away.

• Willerby Cane & Garden Centre — garden centre
  Main Street, HU10 6BP Hull · 7 km
• Plant & Paint — plant nursery
  Humber Street 24, HU1 1TH · 0 km
• Wednesday Market — market
  Wed 09:00–16:00 · 13 km
• Rowley Produce — farm shop
  Mon–Sun 09:00–21:00 · 13 km · facebook.com
• Sandhill Garden Centre — garden centre
  Wyton Road, HU12 8TY Hull · 9 km · sandhill-gardencentre.co.uk
• Saturday Market — market
  Sat 09:00 - 16:00 · 13 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Hull
• Selling your own harvest in the United Kingdom

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Hull by month

Average weather in Hull over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: July (20.8 °C) and August (20.8 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.9 °C. About 763 mm of rain falls in a year, on 146 days; July is the wettest month (77 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).