Last and first frost dates in Stuttgart

When is the last frost in Stuttgart?

The last frost in Stuttgart usually comes around 19 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 29 March, while corn waits until 3 May. The first autumn frost follows around 8 November, about 203 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 Stuttgart

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 29 days after it.

Frost dates near Stuttgart

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

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Stuttgart

Within 15 km of Stuttgart OpenStreetMap lists 34 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 10 plant nurseries, 28 markets and 99 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is Hörmann Pflanzen-Center, 5 km away.

• Hörmann Pflanzen-Center — garden centre
  Korinnaweg 52, 70597 Stuttgart · Mar–Jun: Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Mar–Jun: Sat 08:30–16:00; Oct–Nov: Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Oct–Nov: Sat 08:30–14:00; Dec–Feb, Jun–Sept: Mon–Fri 08:00–12:30, 13:30–18:00; Jun–Sept: Sat 08:30–14:00; Sept 16–30 closed; public holidays closed · 5 km · hoermann-pflanzen.de
• Württemberg Alpakas — farm supply
  Württembergstraße, 70327 Stuttgart · 7 km · wuerttemberg-alpakas.de
• Gärtnerei Locher — plant nursery
  Zur Uhlandshöhe 49, 70188 Stuttgart · 1 km · locher-gaertnerei.de
• Markthalle — market
  Dorotheenstraße 4, 70173 Stuttgart · Mon–Fri 07:30–18:30, Sat 07:00–17:00 · 0 km · markthalle-stuttgart.de
• Hofladen Wais — farm shop
  Epplestraße 52, 70597 Stuttgart · Wed 10:00–12:00; Sat 08:00–12:00 · 4 km · gans-degerloch.de
• Einkaufsgarten Peter Haag — garden centre
  Chemnitzer Straße 23, 70597 Stuttgart · Mon–Fri 09:00–12:30, 14:30–18:00; Sat 08:30–14:00 · 5 km · einkaufsgarten.de

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Stuttgart
• Selling your own harvest in Germany

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Stuttgart by month

Average weather in Stuttgart over 2016–2025: the warmest month is August. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June–September (20.8–25 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in January (-1.2 °C). About 869 mm of rain falls in a year, on 149 days; May is the wettest month (91 mm) and April 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).