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Ukraine: frost dates by city

The average last spring frost and first autumn frost in 23 cities of Ukraine, from ten years of weather. The last spring frost comes earliest in Odesa and latest in Sumy.

CityLast spring frostFirst autumn frostFrost-free days
Odesa28 March25 November242 days
Cherkasy30 March11 November226 days
Kherson30 March17 November232 days
Mykolaiv31 March10 November224 days
Zaporizhzhia2 April12 November224 days
Dnipro3 April8 November219 days
Kryvyi Rih5 April7 November216 days
Kyiv5 April9 November218 days
Poltava6 April23 October200 days
Uzhhorod6 April31 October208 days
Kropyvnytskyi7 April7 November214 days
Chernihiv11 April28 October200 days
Zhytomyr11 April20 October192 days
Lviv14 April12 November212 days
Lutsk15 April21 October189 days
Vinnytsia15 April20 October188 days
Chernivtsi17 April21 October187 days
Khmelnytskyi18 April23 October188 days
Rivne18 April16 November212 days
Ivano-Frankivsk21 April20 October182 days
Kharkiv21 April21 October183 days
Ternopil21 April20 October182 days
Sumy22 April20 October181 days

Median of 2016–2025 for the 25 km grid cell of the city: the last day at or below 0 °C in spring and the first in autumn (ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo). In a cold year a frost can come a week or two later — Greenly warns 48 hours ahead.

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