Last and first frost dates in Penza

When is the last frost in Penza?

The last frost in Penza usually comes around 30 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 9 April, while corn waits until 7 May. The first autumn frost follows around 15 October, about 168 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 Penza

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 20 days after it.

Frost dates near Penza

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Saratov (14 April) and latest in Saransk (30 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Penza

Within 15 km of Penza OpenStreetMap lists 11 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 7 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Дачник, 3 km away.

• Дачник — garden centre
  Mon–Sun 09:00–18:00 · 3 km
• Центральный рынок — market
  улица Бакунина 20, Пенза · 1 km
• Дорожка — farm shop
  Привокзальная площадь 1Д · 0 km
• Наша дача — garden centre
  Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00; Sat, Sun 09:00–18:00 · 4 km
• Простые системы — market
  улица Карла Маркса 16, Пенза · 2 km
• Марта — farm shop
  улица 8 Марта 25Б, Пенза · 3 km

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Penza by month

Average weather in Penza over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June (23.4 °C), July (25.9 °C) and August (25.3 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in November–March (-11.2–-2.8 °C). About 612 mm of rain falls in a year, on 120 days; July is the wettest month (75 mm) and March the driest (34 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).