Last and first frost dates in Orenburg

When is the last frost in Orenburg?

The last frost in Orenburg usually comes around 25 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 4 April, while corn waits until 2 May. The first autumn frost follows around 11 October, about 169 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 Orenburg

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 1 day before the last spring frost and 15 °C 20 days after it.

Frost dates near Orenburg

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Oral (Uralsk) (17 April) and latest in Magnitogorsk (4 May).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Orenburg

Within 15 km of Orenburg OpenStreetMap lists 11 farm-supply shops, 11 markets and 37 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest farm supply to the city centre is Центр Садовода, 1 km away.

• Центр Садовода — farm supply
  Mon–Sun 09:00–19:00 · 1 km · centr-sadovoda.ru
• Хлебопродукт 2 — market
  Мельничный переулок 1/1, Оренбург · 2 km
• Рябушка — farm shop
  Телевизионный переулок 1, Оренбург · 1 km
• Центр Садовода — farm supply
  Mon–Sun 09:00–19:00 · 1 km · centr-sadovoda.ru
• Славянский базар — market
  проспект Братьев Коростелёвых 1, 460009 Оренбург · Mon–Sun 09:00–19:00 · 2 km
• Наш Золотой цыпленок — farm shop
  Туркестанская улица 2А, Оренбург · 1 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Orenburg
• Selling your own harvest in Russia

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Orenburg by month

Average weather in Orenburg over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–August (22–29.4 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in November–March (-14.6–-4.3 °C). About 436 mm of rain falls in a year, on 90 days; October is the wettest month (43 mm) and August the driest (27 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).