When to plant tomatoes in Pau: 4 May – 14 August

In Pau, tomato: sow for seedlings from 20 February to 23 June; plant into a greenhouse from 13 April to 14 August; plant out into open ground from 4 May to 14 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Truffaut (garden centre, 3 km) and Point Vert (garden centre, 5 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Pau: soil, season and weather

In Pau the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 12 March, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 4 May, 53 days later.

Last spring frost	12 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	4 May, 53 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	13 April – 14 August; April outside: 7 °C at night, 17.4 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	4 December, 214 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	13 July – 23 October
Days left for picking	144
Daylight	11:46 on 13 March, 14:14 on 4 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 10 rainy days

Tomato in Pau: care after planting

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

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

4 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
1 June — 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 Pau during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 26.7 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: November (14.4 °C) and December (12.4 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in May, June and September–December (3.7–14.3 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	20.2	10.2	132	17	14:40
June	24.3	14.3	105	14	15:23
July	26	16.1	63	10	15:06
August	26.7	16.2	68	10	14:00
September	23.6	13.5	89	11	12:33
October	20.4	10.4	102	12	11:05
November	14.4	5.8	150	15	9:44
December	12.4	3.7	132	13	9:00

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Tomato in nearby cities

Around Pau, Bayonne is 15 days earlier and Jaca 28 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Jaca	86 km	1 June – 11 July	28 days later
Bayonne	92 km	19 April – 27 August	15 days earlier
Pamplona	118 km	14 May – 10 August	10 days later
Huesca	130 km	1 May – 6 August	3 days earlier
San Sebastián	131 km	1 May – 13 August	3 days earlier
Toulouse	149 km	25 April – 8 August	9 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Pau

Buy plants ready to set out from 4 May to 14 August (from 13 April to 14 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 20 February to 23 June. Within 15 km of Pau OpenStreetMap lists 12 garden centres, 6 farm-supply shops, 2 plant nurseries, 7 markets and 12 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Point Vert — garden centre
Mon–Sat 09:00–12:00, 14:00–19:00 · 9 km · monmagasinvert.fr
Truffaut — garden centre
Mon–Fri 09:30–12:30, 14:00–19:00; Sat 09:30–19:00; Sun 10:00–12:30, 14:00–18:30 · 3 km · truffaut.com
Point Vert — garden centre
Mon–Sat 09:00–12:00, 14:00–19:00 · 5 km · monmagasinvert.fr
Point Vert — garden centre
Mon–Fri 09:00–12:00, 14:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–12:30, 14:00–19:00 · 5 km · monmagasinvert.fr

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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