Last and first frost dates in Liverpool

When is the last frost in Liverpool?

The last frost in Liverpool usually comes around 1 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 11 March, while corn waits until 5 May. The first autumn frost follows around 26 November, about 239 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 Liverpool

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 8 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 55 days after it.

Frost dates near Liverpool

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Wrexham (7 April) and latest in Stoke-on-Trent (27 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Liverpool

Within 15 km of Liverpool OpenStreetMap lists 21 garden centres, 5 plant nurseries, 9 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Carr Farm Garden Centre, 11 km away.

• Carr Farm Garden Centre — garden centre
  Birkenhead Road, Meols · 11 km
• Red Brick Market — market
  Stanhope Street 70, L8 5RF · Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00; Sun 10:00–17:00 · 2 km
• Yew Tree Farm Shop — farm shop
  Lower Road 1, L26 3UA Liverpool · 12 km · yew-tree-farm.org
• Fowler's Gardens Limited — garden centre
  Webber Road 7, L33 7SW · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00 · 11 km · fowlerlandscapeconstruction.com
• Tuebrook Market — market
  Thu, Sat, Sun 06:00–14:00 · 3 km
• Whitakers Garden Center — garden centre
  Manchester Road, L34 5UD Prescot · Mon–Sat 09:00–17:30, Sun 10:00–16:30 · 12 km · whitakersgardencentre.co.uk

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Liverpool by month

Average weather in Liverpool over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. No month averages 20 °C by day; the warmest, July, reaches 19.3 °C. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 2.8 °C. About 1187 mm of rain falls in a year, on 192 days; September is the wettest month (121 mm) and May the driest (64 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).