Potato in Chicago: weekly temperatures and windows
Detailed weekly chart for this crop and place. For planting dates, see when to plant potato in Chicago.
Growing window for Potato: Apr 4 – Oct 26 (206 days)
Planting window for Potato: Apr 4 – Jul 8 (96 days)
Usually too cold: Oct 26 – 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 14 · Mar 30 – Apr 5
Average 2 to 10 °C · Possible −6 to 23 °C
Growing: too cold
Planting: too cold
A week is in range when its average low and high sit inside the tolerance band 7 to 30 °C; it is suitable when that average range also overlaps the ideal 15 to 24 °C band and possible readings stay within 7 °C to 30 °C. Crossing a possible limit, or missing the ideal band, makes it tolerable; a possible low below 7 °C makes it tolerable. 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)).
- Ideal
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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.