Last and first frost dates in Strasbourg

When is the last frost in Strasbourg?

The last frost in Strasbourg usually comes around 6 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 16 March, while corn waits until 16 April. The first autumn frost follows around 20 November, about 228 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 Strasbourg

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 6 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 36 days after it.

Frost dates near Strasbourg

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Karlsruhe (5 April) and latest in Colmar (20 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Strasbourg

Within 15 km of Strasbourg OpenStreetMap lists 15 garden centres, 13 markets and 31 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Tchungle, 1 km away.

• Tchungle — garden centre
  Tue–Sat 10:00–19:00 · 1 km
• Halle du marché de Neudorf — market
  Tue, Sat 07:00–13:00 · 1 km
• L'îlot de la Meinau — farm shop
  Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–13:00 · 1 km · lilotdelameinau.fr
• Botanic — garden centre
  Route d'Oberhausbergen 1, 67200 Strasbourg · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00 · 3 km · botanic.com
• Place du Marché — market
  Tue 07:00–13:00; Sat 07:00–13:00 · 1 km
• Ma Ferme En Ville — farm shop
  Rue de Zurich 58, 67000 Strasbourg · Mon–Fri 10:00–19:00; Sat 10:00–18:00 · 1 km · jmo-mafermeenville.alsace

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Strasbourg
• Selling your own harvest in France

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Strasbourg by month

Average weather in Strasbourg over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: May–September (20–26.2 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 0.1 °C. About 876 mm of rain falls in a year, on 145 days; January is the wettest month (84 mm) and March the driest (59 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).