Last and first frost dates in Manresa

When is the last frost in Manresa?

The last frost in Manresa usually comes around 18 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 25 February, while corn waits until 25 March. The first autumn frost follows around 2 December, about 259 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 Manresa

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 12 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 33 days after it.

Frost dates near Manresa

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Tarragona (12 January) and latest in Girona (11 February).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Manresa

Within 15 km of Manresa OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 1 plant nursery, 2 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Mercat municipal Puigmercadal, 1 km away.

• Mercat municipal Puigmercadal — market
  Muralla del Carme 5, Manresa · 1 km · blog.puigmercadal.cat
• Mercat de la Sagrada Família — market
  Carrer de Sant Cristòfol, 08243 Manresa · Mon–Thu 08:00–14:00; Fri 08:00–14:00, 16:30–20:30; Sat 08:00–15:00 · 1 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Manresa
• Selling your own harvest in Spain

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Manresa by month

Average weather in Manresa over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (20.9–31.1 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (31.1 °C) and August (30.6 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.4 °C. About 726 mm of rain falls in a year, on 97 days; October is the wettest month (91 mm) and December the driest (29 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).