Last and first frost dates in Izmir

When is the last frost in Izmir?

The last frost in Izmir usually comes around 19 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 26 February, while corn waits until 5 April. The first autumn frost follows around 7 December, about 263 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 Izmir

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 11 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 40 days after it.

Frost dates near Izmir

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Antalya (2 February) and latest in Eskişehir (13 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Izmir

Within 15 km of Izmir OpenStreetMap lists 47 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Hamza Rüstem Pasajı, 0 km away.

• Hamza Rüstem Pasajı — market
  Anafartalar Caddesi 150, 35250 İzmir · 0 km
• borsa market — market
  1438. Sokak 5/1A, 35220 izmir · 2 km
• Yenişehir Pazar Yeri — market
  1137. Sokak · 2 km
• Kahramanlar Pazar Yeri — market
  Fri 09:00–17:00 · 2 km
• Buca Çarşı - Kapalı Pazar ve Sosyal Tesisler — market
  Özmen Caddesi · Mon–Sat 08:00–20:00 · 6 km
• Üçkuyular Pazarı — market
  Sun 09:00–18:00 · 6 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Izmir
• Selling your own harvest in Turkey

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Izmir by month

Average weather in Izmir over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (21.7–33.1 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (33.1 °C) and August (32.6 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.9 °C. About 692 mm of rain falls in a year, on 82 days; January is the wettest month (142 mm) and July the driest (3 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).