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Kenya fresh produce export calendar

When Kenya ships avocados into Europe and the Gulf, month by month — the origin that has scaled fastest into the EU market, out of Mombasa.

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Kenya fresh produce export calendar: which produce ships in which month.
Produce January February March April May June July August September October November December
Avocado January: Not shipping February: Not shipping March: Shoulder April: Peak May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Shoulder October: Shoulder November: Not shipping December: Not shipping
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of Kenya rather than arrival weeks in your market.

Kenya is the newest serious avocado origin on this calendar and the only sub-Saharan programme at scale other than South Africa’s. Fuerte opens the season and Hass carries the volume behind it, into Europe, the Gulf and — since the protocol was agreed — China. The window sits in the middle of the year, which puts it against Peru rather than against Chile or Colombia.

Two things make it behave unlike the Latin American origins. It is a smallholder crop: volume is aggregated from tens of thousands of small farms, and the quality question is therefore maturity discipline rather than orchard management. Kenya sets a harvest opening date each season precisely because fruit picked before it never ripens properly, and an early container is a claim waiting to happen rather than a head start. And Mombasa is further from Rotterdam than it looks on a map — the better part of a month by sea, through Suez — so this is a controlled-atmosphere programme, not a fresh-air one.

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April–August peak · March, September–October shoulder Varieties: Fuerte, Hass

Roughly March to October, with Fuerte opening the season and Hass carrying the volume from about April. It sits squarely on Peru’s window rather than in a gap, which is the commercial fact to plan around: a European buyer in June has a genuine choice of origin, and Kenya is usually the cheaper half of it.

The Kenyan quality risk is at the start of the season rather than at the end. Volume comes from tens of thousands of smallholdings, and fruit picked before it has enough dry matter never ripens properly — it shrivels instead. Kenya sets a harvest opening date each season for exactly that reason, and a container loaded ahead of it is a claim rather than a head start. Everything after that is a controlled-atmosphere problem: Mombasa to Rotterdam is the better part of a month.

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