Last and first frost dates in Kiel

When is the last frost in Kiel?

The last frost in Kiel usually comes around 9 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 19 March, while corn waits until 10 May. The first autumn frost follows around 20 November, about 225 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 Kiel

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 15 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 50 days after it.

Frost dates near Kiel

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Bremen (7 April) and latest in Hamburg (20 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Kiel

Within 15 km of Kiel OpenStreetMap lists 11 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 9 markets and 19 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Dehner Gartencenter, 2 km away.

• Dehner Gartencenter — garden centre
  Tonberg 5, 24113 Kiel · Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–18:00 · 2 km
• HaGe Lager — farm supply
  Klein Nordseer Straße 9, 24242 Felde · 12 km
• Wochenmarkt Exerzierplatz — market
  Wed 08:00–13:00; Sat 08:00–13:00 · 1 km
• Hof Villa Wittschap — farm shop
  Rendsburger Landstraße 510, 24111 Kiel · Fri 15:00–18:00; Sat 10:00–13:00 · 6 km
• Rosa Rostig Gartenaccessoires — garden centre
  Yorckstraße 1a, 24105 Kiel · Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00; Sat 10:00–13:00 · 3 km · rosa-rostig.de
• Wochenmarkt Vinetaplatz — market
  Tue, Sat 08:00–13:00 · 1 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Kiel
• Selling your own harvest in Germany

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Kiel by month

Average weather in Kiel over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June (20.9 °C), July (21.4 °C) and August (21.9 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0.2 °C. About 811 mm of rain falls in a year, on 149 days; July is the wettest month (93 mm) and March the driest (54 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).