Last and first frost dates in Sochi

When is the last frost in Sochi?

The last frost in Sochi usually comes around 27 February: 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 6 February, while corn waits until 7 April. The first autumn frost follows around 14 December, about 290 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 Sochi

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 after the last spring frost and 15 °C 63 days after it.

Frost dates near Sochi

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Novorossiysk (19 March) and latest in Cherkessk (4 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Sochi

Within 15 km of Sochi OpenStreetMap lists 10 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Ярмарка выходного дня, 2 km away.

• Ярмарка выходного дня — market
  Thu–Sat 08:00–19:00 · 2 km
• Egan Vegan — farm shop
  улица Карла Либкнехта 10/1, Сочи · 1 km
• ТК "Вертодром" — market
  Mon–Sun 08:00–19:00 · 3 km
• Ярмарка выходного дня — market
  Fri–Sun 08:00–17:00 · 7 km
• Ярмарка — market
  Армавирская улица 100 · 9 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Sochi
• Selling your own harvest in Russia

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Sochi by month

Average weather in Sochi over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (24.5–28.4 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 3.5 °C. About 1697 mm of rain falls in a year, on 156 days; December is the wettest month (210 mm) and August the driest (73 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).