Last and first frost dates in Palencia

When is the last frost in Palencia?

The last frost in Palencia usually comes around 10 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 20 March, while corn waits until 17 April. The first autumn frost follows around 12 November, about 216 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 Palencia

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 17 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 29 days after it.

Frost dates near Palencia

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Zamora (3 April) and latest in Burgos (18 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Palencia

Within 15 km of Palencia OpenStreetMap lists 1 farm-supply shop and 5 markets (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Mercadillo del recinto ferial, 0 km away.

• Mercadillo del recinto ferial — market
  Sun 09:00–14:00 · 0 km
• Mercadillo de San Juanillo — market
  Wed 09:00–14:00 · 1 km
• Mercado de Abastos — market
  Mon–Sat 08:30–14:00 · 1 km
• Mercadillo del Paseo de la Julia — market
  Tue 09:00–14:00 · 2 km

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Palencia by month

Average weather in Palencia over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–September (21–30.4 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (30.4 °C) and August (30.4 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0 °C. About 498 mm of rain falls in a year, on 92 days; April is the wettest month (66 mm) and July the driest (9 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).