Last and first frost dates in Rostock

When is the last frost in Rostock?

The last frost in Rostock usually comes around 14 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 24 March, while corn waits until 10 May. The first autumn frost follows around 17 November, about 217 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 Rostock

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 17 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 44 days after it.

Frost dates near Rostock

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Lübeck (9 April) and latest in Szczecin (22 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Rostock

Within 15 km of Rostock OpenStreetMap lists 5 garden centres, 4 plant nurseries, 13 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Bauhaus Stadtgarten, 3 km away.

• Bauhaus Stadtgarten — garden centre
  Mon–Fri 07:00–20:00; Sat 08:00–20:00 · 3 km
• Wochenmarkt Ulmenmarkt — market
  Mon, Tue 08:00–16:00; Sat 08:00–12:00 · 1 km · rostocker-wochenmaerkte.de
• Food Coop "Beißwat" — farm shop
  Budapester Straße 61, 18057 Rostock · Thu 16:00–19:30 · 1 km · stadtgestalten.org
• Block's Garten- und Blumen Markt — garden centre
  Satower Straße 74, 18059 Rostock · 3 km · blumenblock.de
• Wochenmarkt Doberaner Platz — market
  Mon, Thu 08:00–18:00; Tue 12:00–18:00; Wed, Fri–Sun, public holidays closed · 2 km · rostocker-wochenmaerkte.de
• Hof Postma — farm shop
  Allershäger Straße 7a, 18069 Lambrechtshagen · Thu–Fri 11:00–18:00; Sat 10:00–17:00 · 6 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Rostock
• Selling your own harvest in Germany

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Rostock by month

Average weather in Rostock over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June (21.6 °C), July (22 °C) and August (22.7 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-0.2 °C) and February (-0.1 °C). About 706 mm of rain falls in a year, on 138 days; July is the wettest month (83 mm) and March the driest (42 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).