Last and first frost dates in Inverness

When is the last frost in Inverness?

The last frost in Inverness usually comes around 1 May: 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 10 April, while corn waits until 18 May. The first autumn frost follows around 13 November, about 196 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 Inverness

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 6 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 37 days after it.

Frost dates near Inverness

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Aberdeen (10 April) and latest in Stirling (29 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Inverness

Within 15 km of Inverness OpenStreetMap lists 4 garden centres, 1 plant nursery and 4 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Howdens Garden Centre, 2 km away.

• Howdens Garden Centre — garden centre
  Stoneyfield Road, IV2 7PA Inverness · Mon–Wed 09:00–18:00; Thu 09:00–19:30; Fri, Sat 09:00–18:00; Sun 10:00–18:00 · 2 km · klondyke.co.uk
• Abriachan Garden Nurseries — plant nursery
  Feb–Nov 09:00–19:00 · 15 km · lochnessgarden.com

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Inverness by month

Average weather in Inverness over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. No month averages 20 °C by day; the warmest, July, reaches 18.5 °C. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.1 °C. About 983 mm of rain falls in a year, on 179 days; October is the wettest month (111 mm) and April the driest (55 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).