Last and first frost dates in Oskemen

When is the last frost in Oskemen?

The last frost in Oskemen usually comes around 3 May: 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 April, while corn waits until 10 May. The first autumn frost follows around 1 October, about 151 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 Oskemen

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 5 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 10 days after it.

Frost dates near Oskemen

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Semey (25 April) and latest in Novokuznetsk (14 May).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Oskemen

Within 15 km of Oskemen OpenStreetMap lists 12 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Муниципалды базар Жәрдем, 1 km away.

• Муниципалды базар Жәрдем — market
  Қазақстан көшесі 76 · 1 km
• Тамила плюс — farm shop
  Қайсенов көшесі 65/1 · 0 km
• ТД Аружан — market
  Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев даңғылы 42/2 · 2 km
• Алина — farm shop
  Шәкәрім даңғылы, Усть-Каменогорск · Mon–Sun 09:00–21:00 · 3 km
• Металлург — market
  Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев даңғылы 37, Усть-Каменогорск · 3 km
• Ровесник — market
  Серикбаева улица 27 · 3 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Oskemen
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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Oskemen by month

Average weather in Oskemen over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–August (21.5–27.9 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in October–April (-18.1–-0.3 °C). About 585 mm of rain falls in a year, on 108 days; July is the wettest month (72 mm) and February the driest (30 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).