Last and first frost dates in Parma

When is the last frost in Parma?

The last frost in Parma usually comes around 18 March: 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 February, while corn waits until 1 April. The first autumn frost follows around 29 November, about 256 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 Parma

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 2 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 35 days after it.

Frost dates near Parma

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Mantua (2 March) and latest in Brescia (20 March).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Parma

Within 15 km of Parma OpenStreetMap lists 3 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 3 plant nurseries, 3 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Bia Home & Garden, 1 km away.

• Bia Home & Garden — garden centre
  Viale della Villetta 21 · Mon–Fri 09:00–13:00, 14:30–19:30; Sat–Sun 09:00–19:30 · 1 km
• Azienda Agricola Cosimo Larovere — farm shop
  Mon–Sat 10:30–12:30, 16:00–19:00 · 10 km
• Saracchi Piante — garden centre
  Strada Traversetolo 103a · 4 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Parma
• Selling your own harvest in Italy

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Parma by month

Average weather in Parma over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–September (21.9–31.1 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (31.1 °C) and August (30.7 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0 °C. About 923 mm of rain falls in a year, on 108 days; May is the wettest month (127 mm) and January the driest (48 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).