Last and first frost dates in Orléans

When is the last frost in Orléans?

The last frost in Orléans usually comes around 2 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 12 March, while corn waits until 18 April. The first autumn frost follows around 25 November, about 237 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 Orléans

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 7 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 39 days after it.

Frost dates near Orléans

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Tours (18 March) and latest in Paris (8 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Orléans

Within 15 km of Orléans OpenStreetMap lists 13 garden centres, 4 farm-supply shops, 3 plant nurseries, 37 markets and 16 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Jardiland, 2 km away.

• Jardiland — garden centre
  Mon–Fri 09:30–12:30, 14:00–19:00; Sat 09:30–19:00; Sun 09:30–12:30, 14:00–18:30 · 2 km · jardiland.com
• Graineterie I.C. Montant — farm supply
  Rue de la Barrière Saint-Marc 135 · Tue–Sun 09:00–12:00, 14:00–19:00 · 4 km · grainesoiseaux.fr
• Marché Châtelet — market
  Tue–Sat 07:00–19:30; Sun 08:00–13:00 · 0 km · halleschatelet.fr
• Centre Production Horticole de la ville d'Orléans — farm shop
  Rue du Haut de Bransles 322, 45560 Saint-Denis-en-Val · 4 km
• Truffaut — garden centre
  Route de Saint-Cyr en Val, 45650 Saint-Jean-le-Blanc · 09:30–19:00 · 4 km · truffaut.com
• Sopa — farm supply
  Allée du Bois Vert 190, 45640 Sandillon · 12 km · kultive.fr

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Orléans by month

Average weather in Orléans over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (21.9–25.4 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.8 °C. About 799 mm of rain falls in a year, on 135 days; May is the wettest month (84 mm) and April the driest (50 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).