Last and first frost dates in Worcester

When is the last frost in Worcester?

The last frost in Worcester usually comes around 15 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 25 March, while corn waits until 6 May. The first autumn frost follows around 22 November, about 221 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 Worcester

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 same day the last spring frost and 15 °C 47 days after it.

Frost dates near Worcester

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Oxford (3 April) and latest in Birmingham (26 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Worcester

Within 15 km of Worcester OpenStreetMap lists 10 garden centres, 4 plant nurseries, 2 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is David's Nurseries, 6 km away.

• David's Nurseries — garden centre
  Ash Lane, WR3 8TB Martin Hussingtree · Mon–Sat 09:00–17:30; Sun 10:00–16:00 · 6 km · cherry-lane.co.uk
• Clive's Fruit Farm — farm shop
  Upper Hook Road, WR8 0SA Worcester · 14 km · clivesfruitfarm.co.uk
• Webbs of Wychbold — garden centre
  Worcester Road, WR9 0DG Droitwich · Mon–Sat 09:00–18:00; Sun 10:00–16:30 · 15 km · webbsdirect.co.uk
• Three Counties Produce — farm shop
  Worcester Road, WR9 0DG Droitwich · 15 km · threecountiesproduce.co.uk

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Worcester
• Selling your own harvest in the United Kingdom

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Worcester by month

Average weather in Worcester over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: July (21.6 °C) and August (21.2 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.7 °C. About 800 mm of rain falls in a year, on 143 days; October is the wettest month (84 mm) and April the driest (47 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).