Last and first frost dates in Stoke-on-Trent

When is the last frost in Stoke-on-Trent?

The last frost in Stoke-on-Trent usually comes around 27 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 6 April, while corn waits until 9 May. The first autumn frost follows around 15 November, about 202 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 Stoke-on-Trent

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 34 days after it.

Frost dates near Stoke-on-Trent

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Wrexham (7 April) and latest in Birmingham (26 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Stoke-on-Trent

Within 15 km of Stoke-on-Trent OpenStreetMap lists 12 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 3 plant nurseries, 6 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Garners Garden Centre, 5 km away.

• Garners Garden Centre — garden centre
  Cemetery Road, ST5 6SH Newcastle-under-Lyme · Mon–Sun 10:00–16:45 · 5 km · garnersgardencentre.co.uk
• Hanley Indoor Market — market
  Market Square, ST1 1NS Stoke-on-Trent · 0 km
• Trentham Farm Shop — farm shop
  Stone Road, ST4 8AX Stoke-on-Trent · 8 km
• Northwood Garden Centre — garden centre
  Clayton Road, ST5 4DH Newcastle-under-Lyme · Mon–Sun 10:00–16:00 · 6 km · northwoodgardencentre.co.uk
• Tunstall Market — market
  Wed–Fri 09:00–15:00 · 4 km
• Jacksons Nurseries and Tea Room — garden centre
  Thorney Edge Road, ST9 9LE Stoke-on-Trent · 6 km

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Stoke-on-Trent
• Selling your own harvest in the United Kingdom

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Stoke-on-Trent by month

Average weather in Stoke-on-Trent over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: July (20.2 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.2 °C. About 935 mm of rain falls in a year, on 168 days; October is the wettest month (98 mm) and April the driest (57 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).