When to plant pumpkins in Ciudad Real: 7 May – 3 August

In Ciudad Real, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 5 March to 22 June; plant into a greenhouse from 16 April to 3 August; plant out into open ground from 7 May to 3 August.

Pumpkin in Ciudad Real: soil, season and weather

In Ciudad Real the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 6 March, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 7 May, 62 days later.

Last spring frost	6 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	7 May, 62 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	28 November, 205 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	21 July – 17 October
Days left for picking	130
Daylight	12:22 on 26 March, 14:02 on 7 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, July, has 1 rainy day

The same dates in Ciudad Real hold for Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Zucchini and Watermelon.

Pumpkin in Ciudad Real: care after planting

Planted on 7 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

Feeding, by the card’s schedule from that day:

28 May — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of pumpkin to watch for:

Dates count from the first planting day of the window above; a later planting moves them by as many days.

Weather in Ciudad Real during the pumpkin season

About 190 mm of rain falls in the season; July is the driest month (3 mm) and October the wettest (55 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	25.1	11.6	32	6	14:17
June	31	16.8	16	3	14:53
July	35.5	20.2	3	1	14:39
August	34.9	20.1	8	1	13:43
September	28.7	15.4	26	4	12:29
October	23.5	11.2	55	7	11:14
November	15.7	5.7	50	8	10:04

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Ciudad Real, Córdoba (Spain) is 16 days earlier and Toledo 4 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Alcázar de San Juan	76 km	30 April – 7 August	7 days earlier
Toledo	97 km	11 May – 11 August	4 days later
Úbeda	119 km	7 May – 8 August	same day
Talavera de la Reina	134 km	9 May – 23 August	2 days later
Jaén	136 km	26 April – 22 August	11 days earlier
Córdoba (Spain)	143 km	21 April – 2 September	16 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Ciudad Real

Buy plants ready to set out from 7 May to 3 August (from 16 April to 3 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 5 March to 22 June. Within 15 km of Ciudad Real OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre and 1 market (collected 27 October 2026).

Viveros Candi — garden centre
9 km
Mercado Municipal — market
1 km

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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