Chili pepper in Chicago: weekly temperatures and windows
Detailed weekly chart for this crop and place. For planting dates, see when to plant chili pepper in Chicago.
Growing window for Chili pepper: May 13 – Sep 15 (126 days)
Planting window for Chili pepper: May 13 – Jun 20 (39 days)
Usually too cold: Jan 1 – May 10; Sep 21 – Dec 31
Outdoors: weekly temperatures and windows
Temperatures across the year for Chicago. Shaded bands are this plant’s ideal and tolerable daytime air ranges. Growing is daytime air suitability; Planting is sow / plant-out conditions (same colour language). Window brackets mark each stretch.
- Ideal range
- Tolerable range
- Possible min to max
- Average min to max
- Suitable
- Tolerable
- Too cold
- Too hot
Selected week · tap a week or use the arrows
Week 20 · May 11 – May 17
Average 10 to 18 °C · Possible 3 to 29 °C
Growing: too cold (inside window)
Planting: suitable
A week is in range when its average low and high sit inside the tolerance band 16 to 35 °C; it is suitable when that average range also overlaps the ideal 21 to 32 °C band and possible readings stay within 0 °C to 35 °C. Crossing a possible limit, or missing the ideal band, makes it tolerable; any chance of frost (possible low below 0 °C) makes it too cold. When a sowing window is calculated, weeks outside that window are uncoloured even if air is in range.
Based on average frost dates (35 seasons (1991–2025)).
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Cover method weekly charts
Outdoor weekly chart is above. Open a cover chart only if you grow under fleece, a cold frame, or an unheated greenhouse.
Dates for Chicago use ERA5-Land cell 41.88, -87.68. How we calculated this · Algorithm 2026-10-season-10.