Last and first frost dates in Nîmes

When is the last frost in Nîmes?

The last frost in Nîmes usually comes around 15 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 25 January, while corn waits until 25 March. The first autumn frost follows around 1 December, about 289 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 Nîmes

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 13 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 61 days after it.

Frost dates near Nîmes

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Montpellier (27 January) and latest in Valence (18 March).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Nîmes

Within 15 km of Nîmes OpenStreetMap lists 7 garden centres, 4 farm-supply shops, 2 plant nurseries, 8 markets and 5 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Jardiland, 2 km away.

• Jardiland — garden centre
  Mon–Fri 09:00–12:30, 14:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–19:00; Sun 10:00–12:30, 14:30–19:00 · 2 km · jardiland.com
• Rullier Languedoc Roussillon — farm supply
  Mon–Fri 08:00–12:00, 14:00–18:00 · 10 km · grouperullier.fr
• Les Halles de Nîmes — market
  Rue des Halles, 30000 Nîmes · Mon–Sat 07:00–13:00; Sun 07:00–13:30 · 0 km · leshallesdenimes.com
• NIMAPLANTS - production de jeunes plants maraichers - vente aux particuliers — farm shop
  Chemin de la Carreirasse, 30132 Caissargues · 5 km · facebook.com
• Truffaut — garden centre
  09:30–19:00 · 3 km · truffaut.com
• La Ferme des Magesses — farm supply
  Les Magesses, 30700 Sanilhac-Sagriès · 14 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Nîmes
• Selling your own harvest in France

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Nîmes by month

Average weather in Nîmes over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (21.2–32 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (32 °C) and August (31.5 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 3.3 °C. About 797 mm of rain falls in a year, on 88 days; October is the wettest month (119 mm) and July the driest (16 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).