Last and first frost dates in Sapporo

When is the last frost in Sapporo?

The last frost in Sapporo usually comes around 9 May: 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 18 April, while corn waits until 4 June. The first autumn frost follows around 17 October, about 161 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 Sapporo

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 11 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 52 days after it.

Frost dates near Sapporo

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Niigata (8 March) and latest in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (9 May).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Sapporo

Within 15 km of Sapporo OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 2 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Nijo Market, 1 km away.

• Nijo Market — market
  Mon–Sun 07:00–18:00 · 1 km · nijomarket.com
• 萩野農園野菜直売所果菜園 — farm shop
  09:00–19:00 · 13 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Sapporo

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Sapporo by month

Average weather in Sapporo over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: July (22.3 °C) and August (22.1 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in November–April (-11.9–-1.8 °C). About 1410 mm of rain falls in a year, on 192 days; August is the wettest month (200 mm) and February the driest (83 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).