Safe to Plant

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Planting calendar for Lahore

Worked out from 30 years of daily minimum temperatures for this location — not from a zone map, and not from the nearest big city. Move the dial to change how much frost risk you are willing to carry, and every date on the page re-times itself.

Last spring frost

27 January

Frost has finished by this date in 1 year in 2.

First autumn frost

No frost

Bring tender crops in before this date.

Frost-free season

All year

No frost on record

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

Nothing to sow this week

No sowing window is open in Lahore right now under this posture. The growing year below shows when the next one starts.

The growing year in Lahore

307 crops, timed to the dates above

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May
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Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Bay
Oca

Frost risk Start indoors Sow direct Plant out Plant Harvest Today

Each bar is a window, not a deadline. Tap or hover a bar for its dates, or follow a crop name for the full timing and a harvest estimate. The blue wash is the measured weekly chance of frost across the whole record. There is also a printable one-page version of this calendar for the shed wall.

The climate behind these dates

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Chance of at least one air frost during each week of the year, measured across the full record. The flat stretch in the middle is your frost-free season.
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Mean monthly temperature across the record. Months shown in blue average at least one air frost.

Hardiness zone
10b
Typical winter low
1.9°C (35.5°F)
Growing degree days
5,806 base 10°C
Soil workable from
8 Jan
Soil warm from
13 Feb

Full frost table for Lahore →

Printable one-page calendar →

Questions about frost in Lahore

When is the last frost in Lahore?

The median last spring frost in Lahore falls on 27 January. In one year in ten frost continues as late as 6 February, so if you cannot protect tender plants, 6 February is the safer date to work to.

What hardiness zone is Lahore in?

Lahore sits in USDA-equivalent zone 10b, based on a mean annual extreme minimum of 1.9°C (35.5°F). Perennials rated to this zone or lower should survive an average winter here.

Can I trust these dates exactly?

They are statistics, not forecasts. They describe what happened across 30 years of records at this location and say nothing about this particular spring. Frost is also intensely local: a low-lying or exposed garden can run a week behind the figures on this page.