Last and first frost dates in Perugia

When is the last frost in Perugia?

The last frost in Perugia usually comes around 7 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 17 March, while corn waits until 16 April. The first autumn frost follows around 25 November, about 232 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 Perugia

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 6 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 32 days after it.

Frost dates near Perugia

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in San Marino (9 February) and latest in Arezzo (6 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Perugia

Within 15 km of Perugia OpenStreetMap lists 7 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 4 markets and 6 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is La Spinosa, 4 km away.

• La Spinosa — garden centre
  Strada Rivolta - Valvitiano 9, Ponte Felcino · 4 km
• Sgalla S.r.l. - Filiale Perugia — farm supply
  Mon–Sat 08:00–12:00; Mon–Fri 14:30–18:30 · 4 km · sgalla.it
• Copacabana mercatino dell'usato — market
  Via dei Filosofi 76/n, 06121 Perugia · 1 km
• Cantina Goretti — farm shop
  Strada Del Pino · 7 km
• Mercato del bove — market
  Sat 08:13:00 · 1 km
• Agricola Mariotti — farm shop
  Strada Del Pino · 7 km

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Perugia by month

Average weather in Perugia over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (20.7–31.6 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: July (31.6 °C) and August (31.5 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0.4 °C. About 914 mm of rain falls in a year, on 109 days; November is the wettest month (123 mm) and July 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).