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Hawaii Vegetable Planting Calendar

Choose your Hawaii USDA hardiness zone to see weekly garden tasks and a full-season schedule for productive spring, summer, and fall vegetable gardens.

Choose Your ZoneView Planting Schedules
USDA Zones 9–13Select the Hawaii zone shown for your location on the map
Climate Changes TimingElevation, rainfall, wind exposure, and island microclimates matter more than winter cold alone
Spring and Fall GardensCool-season crops can be grown on both sides of summer

Plan around island microclimates

Hawaii City Planting Calendars

Choose the nearest city calendar, then adjust for elevation, rainfall, wind exposure, and the conditions in your own garden.

East HonoluluCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 12a–12bLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingEwa GentryCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 12bLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingHiloHawaii County · USDA Zones 11b–12aLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingHonoluluCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 11b–12bLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingKahuluiMaui County · USDA Zones 12b–13aLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingKailuaCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 12aLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingKaneoheCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 12aLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingMililani TownCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 11b–12aLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingPearl CityCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 12aLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timingWaipahuCity and County of Honolulu · USDA Zones 12aLow elevations generally frost-free · Elevation changes timing

Hawaii planting windows

Choose Your USDA Planting Zone

Select Zone 9, Zone 10, Zone 11, Zone 12, or Zone 13 to update both this week’s tasks and the complete Hawaii planting schedule.

Zone 9 Planting Schedule

Start indoorsDirect sowTransplant/plant
Crop names remain visible while you swipe horizontally. The calendar opens at the current week.

Reference: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa CTAHR home vegetable gardening publications. Gardening is possible year-round, but the schedules narrow cool-season crops and progressively lengthen tropical warm-crop windows from high-elevation Zone 9 to low-elevation Zones 12–13.