Melon (cantaloupe/watermelon)

Timing everywhere hangs on one number: the local last spring frost. Enter your town for exact dates where you garden.

Days to maturity

75–100 d

Frost

tender

Soil temp

≥ 21 °C

How melon (cantaloupe/watermelon) timing shifts by place

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Southern-hemisphere places mirror the calendar — their season straddles the new year. Equatorial highlands have no frost at all, so the limiting factor becomes rainfall, not cold. See melon (cantaloupe/watermelon) dates for your place →