Last and first frost dates in Ravenna

When is the last frost in Ravenna?

The last frost in Ravenna usually comes around 5 February: 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 15 January, while corn waits until 26 March. The first autumn frost follows around 12 December, about 310 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 Ravenna

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 28 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 77 days after it.

Frost dates near Ravenna

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Rimini (9 February) and latest in Ferrara (21 March).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Ravenna

Within 15 km of Ravenna OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre, 1 farm-supply shop and 3 markets (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest farm supply to the city centre is Laghi Daniele vendita e assistenza tosaerba, 3 km away.

• Laghi Daniele vendita e assistenza tosaerba — farm supply
  Via Sant'Alberto 249, 48123 Ravenna · 3 km
• Mercato Ambulante di Piazza Zaccagnini — market
  Wed 05:30–14:00, Sat 05:30–14:00 · 1 km
• Mercato ambulante Porto Corsini — market
  Sun 08:00–12:00 · 11 km

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Ravenna by month

Average weather in Ravenna over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–October (20.1–29.3 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 2.2 °C. About 755 mm of rain falls in a year, on 102 days; May is the wettest month (89 mm) and January the driest (41 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).