Hangzhou in October: what to plant
Over the last 5 years, October in Hangzhou has run 15.9–24.1°C with about 65 mm of rain across the month. Here is what weather like that will carry to harvest.
Everything above is a five-year average. In the game it is this — the weather Hangzhou is actually having, today.
Grow one in Hangzhou's weather right now →❄️ No sub-zero nights in October in the last 5 years — frost is not the limiting factor here.
🗓️ This month sits inside the frost-free window. Average last spring frost around Feb 21, first autumn frost around Dec 12 — roughly 296 frost-free days. Sow tender crops after the last frost date and make sure they finish before the first.
☀️ About 6.7 h of sunshine a day this month. Within the month it cools by about 5.8°C from the first ten days to the last — the window for autumn sowings is opening.
Sow this month — when would you harvest?
Assuming you sow in mid-October, then adding up the warmth Hangzhou usually gets, one day at a time — which is why some of these run past the end of the month.
| Crop | Days | Harvest around |
|---|---|---|
| 🥬 Bok Choy | 41 | Nov 24 |
| 🌿 Garlic chives | 161 | Mar 24 |
| 🧅 Onion | 179 | Apr 11 |
⏳ Too late this month: Potato, Cucumber, Green Beans, Strawberry, Zucchini, Marigold, Sunflower, Beetroot, Carrot would still be in the ground when the first frost arrives (around Dec 12). Sow them earlier in the year, or grow them under cover.
Best crops to sow now
They are all ideal for this month — the only real difference is how long each one takes, so pick whatever you want to eat.
- 🥔 Potato about 70 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🥒 Cucumber about 107 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🥢 Green Beans about 60 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🥬 Bok Choy about 30 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🌿 Garlic chives about 57 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🍓 Strawberry about 47 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🥒 Zucchini about 65 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🏵️ Marigold about 47 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🌻 Sunflower about 84 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🟣 Beetroot about 44 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🥕 Carrot about 60 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
- 🧅 Onion about 70 days to harvest Recent mean 20.0°C — right in the sweet spot
Leave these for another month
- 🌿 Rocket — 15 day(s) of heat stress
- 🌿 Spinach — 12 day(s) of heat stress
- 🍈 Winter melon — Slow going at current temperatures (~200 days)
Other months in Hangzhou
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Temperature and rainfall come from Open-Meteo's historical observations for Hangzhou, averaged day by day over the last 5 years. Whether a crop finishes in time is worked out from its own starting temperature and heat requirement — those numbers are listed on each crop page if you want to check them.