Last and first frost dates in Sheffield

When is the last frost in Sheffield?

The last frost in Sheffield usually comes around 15 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 25 March, while corn waits until 11 May. The first autumn frost follows around 22 November, about 221 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 Sheffield

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 3 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 50 days after it.

Frost dates near Sheffield

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Nottingham (7 April) and latest in Manchester (22 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Sheffield

Within 15 km of Sheffield OpenStreetMap lists 23 garden centres, 2 plant nurseries, 11 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Ludlow Home & Garden Supplies, 4 km away.

• Ludlow Home & Garden Supplies — garden centre
  Mon–Fri 09:00–16:00; Sat 09:00–15:00; Sun 10:00–13:00 · 4 km
• Arundel Emporium — market
  Matilda Street 16, Sheffield · 0 km
• Continental Foods — farm shop
  The Moor 77, S1 4PF Sheffield · 1 km · sheffieldmarkets.com
• Birley Moor Garden Centre — garden centre
  Moor Valley 27, S20 5BB Sheffield · 7 km
• The Moor Market — market
  The Moor 77, S1 4PF Sheffield · 1 km · sheffieldmarkets.com
• Rak Mak Mak Thai Food — farm shop
  The Moor 77, S1 4PF Sheffield · 1 km · sheffieldmarkets.com

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Sheffield
• Selling your own harvest in the United Kingdom

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Sheffield by month

Average weather in Sheffield over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. No month averages 20 °C by day; the warmest, July, reaches 19.8 °C. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.7 °C. About 947 mm of rain falls in a year, on 167 days; October is the wettest month (95 mm) and April the driest (54 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).