When to plant tomatoes in Avignon: 18 April – 12 August

In Avignon, tomato: sow for seedlings from 4 February to 21 June; plant into a greenhouse from 28 March to 12 August; plant out into open ground from 18 April to 12 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Pilea Project (garden centre, 1 km) and Jardinerie Droguerie Bellevue (garden centre, 3 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Avignon: soil, season and weather

In Avignon the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 16 February, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 18 April, 61 days later.

Last spring frost	16 February
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	18 April, 61 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	28 March – 12 August; March outside: 6 °C at night, 15.8 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	2 December, 228 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	27 June – 21 October
Days left for picking	158
Daylight	10:58 on 25 February, 13:34 on 18 April
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 3 rainy days

Tomato in Avignon: care after planting

Planted on 18 April: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

18 April — feed: balanced (NPK)
16 May — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of tomato 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 Avignon during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in June (28.8 °C), July (31.7 °C) and August (31.3 °C). Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: November (14.2 °C) and December (11 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in April, May and September–December (4–15.7 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
April	19	8.7	68	8	13:25
May	22.8	12.6	83	9	14:44
June	28.8	17.6	46	8	15:27
July	31.7	20.1	20	3	15:10
August	31.3	19.6	42	4	14:02
September	25.9	15.7	87	6	12:34
October	20.7	12	116	9	11:04
November	14.2	7	106	10	9:40
December	11	4	72	9	8:55

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

Around Avignon, Montpellier is 7 days earlier and Grenoble 63 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Nîmes	38 km	17 April – 11 August	1 day earlier
Montpellier	84 km	11 April – 7 September	7 days earlier
Marseille	85 km	from 13 April	5 days earlier
Valence	109 km	1 May – 1 August	13 days later
Grenoble	156 km	20 June – 5 July	63 days later
Saint-Étienne	169 km	30 May – 28 July	42 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Avignon

Buy plants ready to set out from 18 April to 12 August (from 28 March to 12 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 4 February to 21 June. Within 15 km of Avignon OpenStreetMap lists 9 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 2 plant nurseries, 10 markets and 13 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Griin — garden centre
Chemin du Pont Blanc 130, 84270 Vedène · Mon–Sat 10:00–19:00 · 7 km · griin-outdoor.com
Jardiland — garden centre
Avenue Charles Valente 237 · Mon–Sat 09:30–12:30, 14:00–19:00; Sun 09:30–12:30, 14:00–18:30 · 6 km · jardiland.com
Pilea Project — garden centre
Impasse Baroni 14, 84000 Avignon · 1 km · facebook.com
Jardinerie Droguerie Bellevue — garden centre
Tue 09:30–12:30, 15:00–19:00; Wed 09:30–12:30; Thu–Sat 09:30–12:30, 15:00–19:00 · 3 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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