A growing season starts here

Know when to plant.
Enjoy what grows.

Local planting calendars, frost dates and practical growing advice. Find the right time for your crops, wherever you call home.

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Meet My Garden

A little less guessing.
A little more growing.

Keep your crops and planting tasks together. Build a plan for your location, save it in this browser, and take your dates into your own calendar.

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    Make it local

    Choose a town to see planting windows based on its climate record.

  2. 02

    Make it yours

    Pick the vegetables, herbs, fruit or flowers you want to grow.

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    Take the next step

    See upcoming tasks, check the conditions, and download your plan.

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Shanghai Shanghai, China Zone 9a Last frost 2 Mar First 13 Dec Beijing Beijing, China Zone 7a Last frost 8 Apr First 27 Oct Shenzhen Guangdong, China Zone 11a No reliable frost Guangzhou Guangdong, China Zone 10a Last frost 10 Jan First 23 Dec Kinshasa Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Zone 13a No reliable frost Istanbul Istanbul, Turkey Zone 9b Last frost 20 Feb First 19 Dec Lagos Lagos, Nigeria Zone 13b No reliable frost Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam Zone 13a No reliable frost Chengdu Sichuan, China Zone 9b Last frost 14 Feb First 10 Dec Lahore Punjab, Pakistan Zone 10b Last frost 27 Jan First none Mumbai Maharashtra, India Zone 12a No reliable frost São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil Zone 10b No reliable frost Mexico City Mexico City, Mexico Zone 9b Last frost 9 Feb First 17 Nov Karachi Sindh, Pakistan Zone 12a No reliable frost Tianjin Tianjin, China Zone 7a Last frost 7 Apr First 30 Oct Delhi Delhi, India Zone 10b Last frost 7 Jan First none Wuhan Hubei, China Zone 9a Last frost 21 Feb First 7 Dec Moscow Moscow, Russia Zone 4b Last frost 2 May First 7 Oct

Informed by climate. Grounded in your garden.

A useful starting point,
with room for local knowledge.

We turn NASA temperature records into frost estimates and planting windows. In frost-free places, temperature patterns guide the timing; rainfall and local growing advice help you judge the season.

Your soil, weather and variety still matter. Use your calendar to plan ahead, then check the conditions before planting.

See the method and its limits

From a date to a decision

Give your growing season a plan.

Understand frost risk, work backwards from planting out, and check whether your variety has time to finish.

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Practical worked examples, clear assumptions and tools that use your own dates.

A few things worth knowing

What is a last frost date?

The last frost date is the day in spring after which frost is unlikely at your location. It is not a guarantee - it is a statistic drawn from decades of temperature records, which is why this site shows it as a range of risk levels rather than a single day.

How are these frost dates calculated?

For each location we take 30 years of daily minimum temperature from NASA POWER, find the last spring day and first autumn day at or below freezing in every individual year, and then take percentiles across those years.

Does this work in the southern hemisphere?

Yes. The growing year is anchored to 1 July south of the equator, so spring frost dates fall in September and October and the first autumn frost lands in April or May, as they should.