Last and first frost dates in Salzburg

When is the last frost in Salzburg?

The last frost in Salzburg usually comes around 22 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 1 April, while corn waits until 29 April. The first autumn frost follows around 31 October, about 192 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 Salzburg

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

Frost dates near Salzburg

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Linz (7 April) and latest in Innsbruck (29 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Salzburg

Within 15 km of Salzburg OpenStreetMap lists 20 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 4 plant nurseries, 7 markets and 15 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Bauhaus - Gartencenter, 4 km away.

• Bauhaus - Gartencenter — garden centre
  Mon–Fri 07:30–19:30, Sat 07:30–18:00 · 4 km
• Raiffeisen Lagerhaus Grödig — farm supply
  Pflegerstraße 26, 5082 Grödig · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Sat 08:00–16:00 · 5 km
• Grünmarkt am Universitätsplatz — market
  Mon–Fri 07:00–19:00; Sat 06:00–15:00 · 0 km · stadt-salzburg.at
• Urban Roots — farm shop
  General-Keyes-Straße 40a, 5020 Salzburg · "nach Vereinbarung" · 2 km
• Dehner — garden centre
  Bayernstraße 4, 5071 Wals-Siezenheim · 5 km
• Schranne — market
  Thu 05:00–13:00 · 1 km · stadt-salzburg.at

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Salzburg
• Selling your own harvest in Austria

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Salzburg by month

Average weather in Salzburg over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.1–24.4 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-4 °C), February (-1.8 °C) and December (-2.1 °C). About 1529 mm of rain falls in a year, on 180 days; August is the wettest month (193 mm) and February the driest (91 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).