When to plant peas in Vitoria-Gasteiz: 16 March – 11 September

In Vitoria-Gasteiz, peas: sow straight into the bed from 16 March to 11 September.

Peas in Vitoria-Gasteiz: soil, season and weather

Peas tolerates light frost, so it goes in three weeks before the last frost (6 April); the top 7 cm of soil averages its minimum of 4 °C already in the first week of January.

Last spring frost	6 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 4 °C	already in the first week of January
First autumn frost	24 November, 253 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	74
First harvest, if planted in this window	29 May – 24 November
Days left for picking	179
Daylight	11:55 on 16 March
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 5 rainy days

Peas in Vitoria-Gasteiz: care after planting

Planted on 16 March: in the first weeks water every 6 days.

Pests and diseases of peas to watch for:

Weather in Vitoria-Gasteiz during the peas season

About 493 mm of rain falls in the season; July is the driest month (22 mm) and November the wettest (91 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
March	12.8	3.5	68	14	11:52
April	15.5	5.3	69	14	13:22
May	19.1	8.1	59	12	14:37
June	23.8	12.2	57	10	15:19
July	26.6	14	22	5	15:03
August	27.6	14.5	26	4	13:58
September	23.3	11.9	42	9	12:33
October	19.5	9.3	59	9	11:06
November	12.6	5.2	91	14	9:46

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Peas in nearby cities

Around Vitoria-Gasteiz, San Sebastián is 74 days earlier and Burgos 12 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Logroño	46 km	19 February – 21 September	25 days earlier
Bilbao	50 km	21 February – 13 October	23 days earlier
San Sebastián	77 km	1 January – 20 September	74 days earlier
Pamplona	84 km	28 February – 17 September	16 days earlier
Burgos	102 km	28 March – 4 September	12 days later
Bayonne	121 km	5 January – 4 October	70 days earlier

Where to buy peas seeds in Vitoria-Gasteiz

Seeds go straight into the bed from 16 March to 11 September; buy them before that. Within 15 km of Vitoria-Gasteiz OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 2 plant nurseries, 10 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Mercado Beato Tomás de Zumárraga — market
1 km
Mercado Adurza — market
2 km
Udal mintegia — plant nursery
3 km
Alavesa de Patatas — farm shop · sells: potatoes
13 km · alavesadepatatas.com

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.

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