When to plant watermelons in Bălți: 21 May – 22 July

In Bălți, watermelon: sow for seedlings from 2 April to 24 June; plant into a greenhouse from 30 April to 22 July; plant out into open ground from 21 May to 22 July.

Watermelon in Bălți: soil, season and weather

In Bălți the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 7 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the watermelon card — only around 21 May, 44 days later.

Last spring frost	7 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	21 May, 44 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	30 April – 22 July; April outside: 5.2 °C at night, 16.4 °C by day; card 18–35 °C
First autumn frost	31 October, 163 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	59
First harvest, if planted in this window	19 July – 19 September
Days left for picking	104
Daylight	14:03 on 23 April, 15:22 on 21 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 6 rainy days

The same dates in Bălți hold for Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Zucchini and Pumpkin.

Watermelon in Bălți: care after planting

Planted on 21 May: in the first weeks water every 5 days.

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

21 May — feed: balanced (NPK)

Pests and diseases of watermelon 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 Bălți during the watermelon season

No month of the season averages above the watermelon card's 18–35 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 28.2 °C. Months that stay below 18 °C even by day on average: October (15.8 °C). Nights average below 18 °C in every month of the season, from 6.6 °C to 17.2 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21	10.1	68	12	15:07
June	26.3	15.6	70	10	15:59
July	27.9	17.2	60	8	15:39
August	28.2	16.8	41	6	14:20
September	22.8	12.3	48	8	12:38
October	15.8	6.6	44	7	10:55

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Watermelon in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant watermelon later than Bălți; the closest date is in Chișinău, 3 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Chișinău	109 km	24 May – 8 August	3 days later
Kamianets-Podilskyi	143 km	30 May – 14 July	9 days later
Chernivtsi	159 km	2 June – 12 July	12 days later
Vinnytsia	168 km	1 June – 11 July	11 days later
Khmelnytskyi	197 km	5 June – 14 July	15 days later
Uman	202 km	2 June – 2 August	12 days later

Where to buy watermelon plants and seeds near Bălți

Buy plants ready to set out from 21 May to 22 July (from 30 April to 22 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 2 April to 24 June. Within 15 km of Bălți OpenStreetMap lists 3 markets (collected 27 October 2026).

Piața Centrală — market
Piața Vasile Alecsandri 2, Bălți · 0 km
Magazin Use Termopan — market
1 km
monumente — 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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