Last and first frost dates in Lecce

When is the last frost in Lecce?

The last frost in Lecce usually comes around 16 February: 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 January, while corn waits until 23 February. The first autumn frost follows around 27 November, about 284 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 Lecce

The day the top 7 cm of soil first averages each temperature over a week, median of 2016–2025 (ERA5 via Open-Meteo).

Frost dates near Lecce

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Taranto (13 February) and latest in Potenza (15 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Lecce

Within 15 km of Lecce OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre, 7 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Mercato Porta Rudiae, 1 km away.

• Mercato Porta Rudiae — market
  Via Adua 62, 73100 Lecce · Fri–Sat 06:30–14:00, 17:00–20:00; Thu 06:30–14:00; Sun 07:00–14:00; Sept–Jun Mon–Wed 06:30–14:00, 17:00–20:00; Jul–Aug Mon–Wed 06:30–14:00 · 1 km
• Piazza Giuseppe Libertini — market
  24/7 · 1 km
• Area Mercatale di Monteroni — market
  Località Mercato · 7 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Lecce
• Selling your own harvest in Italy

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Lecce by month

Average weather in Lecce over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (23.1–33.4 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: June (30.3 °C), July (33.4 °C) and August (32.9 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 5.6 °C. About 711 mm of rain falls in a year, on 100 days; November is the wettest month (110 mm) and July the driest (14 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).