Nectarine season by country (2026)

Nectarine season by country

When Spain and Chile ship nectarines and peaches, month by month, on the two halves of the year that between them never leave a gap.

Peak supply June–August, December–February from Chile and Spain. No origin on this page is at peak in March–May, September–November.

Nectarine export calendar: which origin ships in which month.
Origin	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Chile December–February peak · March, November shoulder	January: Peak	February: Peak	March: Shoulder	April: Not shipping	May: Not shipping	June: Not shipping	July: Not shipping	August: Not shipping	September: Not shipping	October: Not shipping	November: Shoulder	December: Peak
Spain June–August peak · May, September shoulder	January: Not shipping	February: Not shipping	March: Not shipping	April: Not shipping	May: Shoulder	June: Peak	July: Peak	August: Peak	September: Shoulder	October: Not shipping	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 the origin rather than arrival weeks in your market.

Nectarines and peaches are the clearest two-hemisphere programme on this calendar. Spain is the European summer’s own stone fruit — Aragón, Catalonia and Murcia, from about June to September — and Chile fills the opposite half of the year, roughly November to March. Between them there is no month with no nectarine in it.

Stone fruit is picked at a ripeness chosen for the journey, and the two origins are shipping to very different journeys. Most of Spain’s moves by truck; Chile’s spends four weeks at sea, which is where the difference between a 2°C and a 5°C setpoint stops being a detail and starts being a claim.

Chile

December–February peak · March, November shoulder Varieties: Ruby Diamond, August Red, and the peaches shipped with them Load ports: Valparaíso, San Antonio, and Coronel

Roughly November to March, on almost the same window as the plums and usually in the same booking. This is the other half of what a Chilean lane page means by “stone fruit”, and it sits directly opposite Spain’s summer programme on the calendar.

Nectarines and peaches are the least tolerant thing Chile ships in volume — softer than a plum, picked at a ripeness chosen for the voyage, and unforgiving of a setpoint that drifted. On a four-week lane the fruit’s condition on arrival was decided by what the reefer actually did, not by what the schedule said.

Everything Chile ships, month by month · Chile → Philadelphia, Chile → Rotterdam, Chile → United Kingdom

Spain

June–August peak · May, September shoulder Varieties: Nectarine, peach, paraguayo Load ports: Valencia, Algeciras, and Barcelona

Roughly May to September out of Aragón, Catalonia and Murcia. Spain is Europe’s stone fruit supply for the summer, and the Southern Hemisphere fills the opposite half of the year.

Stone fruit is picked at a ripeness chosen for the journey, and here the journey is usually a truck. What ships in containers goes further afield, and it is the programme where the difference between a 2°C and a 5°C setpoint shows up as a claim.

Everything Spain ships, month by month

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