Last and first frost dates in Salta

When is the last frost in Salta?

The last frost in Salta usually comes around 10 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 20 July, while corn waits until 17 August. The first autumn frost follows around 30 June, about 324 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 Salta

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

Frost dates near Salta

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca (15 July) and latest in Tarija (27 August).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Salta

Within 15 km of Salta OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre, 1 plant nursery and 5 markets (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest plant nursery to the city centre is vivero, 2 km away.

• vivero — plant nursery
  Avenida Reyes Católicos, Salta · 2 km
• Paseo Balcarce — market
  Antonio Balcarce 875 · 1 km

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

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Salta by month

Average weather in Salta over 2016–2025: the warmest month is January. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: August–April (20–25.8 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in June, average 5.5 °C. About 1334 mm of rain falls in a year, on 147 days; January is the wettest month (254 mm) and August the driest (16 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).