Last and first frost dates in Río Cuarto

When is the last frost in Río Cuarto?

The last frost in Río Cuarto usually comes around 15 August: 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 July, while corn waits until 22 August. The first autumn frost follows around 14 June, about 303 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 Río Cuarto

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 33 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 31 days after it.

Frost dates near Río Cuarto

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Villa Maria (29 July) and latest in San Luis (21 August).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Río Cuarto

Within 15 km of Río Cuarto OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 1 plant nursery, 3 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Punta del agua, 4 km away.

• Punta del agua — market
  Avenida Marcelo T. de Alvear, 5800 · 4 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Río Cuarto
• Selling your own harvest in Argentina

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Río Cuarto by month

Average weather in Río Cuarto over 2016–2025: the warmest month is January. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: September–April (21.3–29.7 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in July, average 5.3 °C. About 727 mm of rain falls in a year, on 81 days; January is the wettest month (113 mm) and June the driest (14 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).