Last and first frost dates in Yoshkar-Ola

When is the last frost in Yoshkar-Ola?

The last frost in Yoshkar-Ola usually comes around 7 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 16 April, while corn waits until 14 May. The first autumn frost follows around 12 October, about 158 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 Yoshkar-Ola

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 21 days after it.

Frost dates near Yoshkar-Ola

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Ulyanovsk (16 April) and latest in Kirov (10 May).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Yoshkar-Ola

Within 15 km of Yoshkar-Ola OpenStreetMap lists 3 garden centres, 5 farm-supply shops, 3 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026). The nearest garden centre to the city centre is МегаСад, 3 km away.

• МегаСад — garden centre
  Mon–Sun 08:00–22:00 · 3 km
• Удачный выбор — farm supply
  Mon–Sun 08:00–17:30 · 1 km
• Central market — market
  Первомайская улица 115 · 1 km
• Товары для сада и дома — garden centre
  улица Лебедева 35 · 4 km · tovsad12.ru
• Ваше огородие — farm supply
  Mon–Sat 08:00–19:00; Sun 08:00–17:00 · 1 km
• Сортсемовощ — farm supply
  Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Sat–Sun 08:00–17:00 · 2 km · sortsemovosh.ru

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Yoshkar-Ola
• Selling your own harvest in Russia

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Yoshkar-Ola by month

Average weather in Yoshkar-Ola over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: June (21.6 °C), July (24.4 °C) and August (23.2 °C). Nights average below 0 °C in November–April (-12.9–-0.4 °C). About 616 mm of rain falls in a year, on 129 days; July is the wettest month (69 mm) and March the driest (39 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).