Last and first frost dates in St. John's

When is the last frost in St. John's?

The last frost in St. John's usually comes around 19 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 28 April, while corn waits until 22 June. The first autumn frost follows around 10 November, about 175 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 St. John's

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 22 days after the last spring frost and 15 °C 38 days after it.

Frost dates near St. John's

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Bangor (24 April) and latest in Charlottetown (10 May).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in St. John's

Within 15 km of St. John's OpenStreetMap lists 3 garden centres and 2 markets (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is The Seed Company, 1 km away.

• The Seed Company — garden centre
  King's Road 88, A1C 6L7 St. John's · 1 km · theseedcompany.ca
• St. John's Farmer's Market — market
  Freshwater Road 245, St. John's · 2 km
• Lester's Farm Market — market
  "seasonal" · 7 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in St. John's
• Selling your own harvest in Canada

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in St. John's by month

Average weather in St. John's over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: August (20.3 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in December–April (-6.9–-0.8 °C). About 1472 mm of rain falls in a year, on 160 days; November is the wettest month (179 mm) and May the driest (92 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).