Last and first frost dates in Samarkand

When is the last frost in Samarkand?

The last frost in Samarkand usually comes around 19 March: 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 26 February, while corn waits until 26 March. The first autumn frost follows around 4 November, about 230 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 Samarkand

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 9 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 22 days after it.

Frost dates near Samarkand

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Bukhara (14 March) and latest in Navoiy (25 March).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Samarkand

Within 15 km of Samarkand OpenStreetMap lists 6 farm-supply shops and 14 markets (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Aziz bozor, 3 km away.

• Aziz bozor — market
  Gagarin ko'chasi · 3 km
• Railway District Market — market
  Mon–Sun 05:00–22:00 · 4 km
• DSK бозор — market
  Narpay ko'chasi, Самарканд · 5 km
• Xazora — market
  Wed, Sun 07:00–18:00 · 7 km
• CHORSU BAZAAR — market
  Rowing canal, Konigil massif, Uzbekistan, 140319 Samarkand · Mon–Sun 10:00–23:00 · 9 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Samarkand
• Selling your own harvest in Uzbekistan

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Samarkand by month

Average weather in Samarkand over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: April–October (21.5–36.9 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: June (33.9 °C), July (36.9 °C) and August (34.6 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-2.7 °C), February (-0.9 °C) and December (-1.4 °C). About 474 mm of rain falls in a year, on 70 days; March is the wettest month (95 mm) and July the driest (1 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).