Strawberry season by country (2026)

Strawberry season by country

When Spain, Egypt and Morocco ship strawberries, month by month, and why almost none of the fresh crop travels in a container.

Peak supply December–May from Egypt and Spain. No origin on this page is at peak in June–November.

Strawberry export calendar: which origin ships in which month.
Origin	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Egypt December–March peak · April, November shoulder	January: Peak	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Shoulder	May: Not shipping	June: Not shipping	July: Not shipping	August: Not shipping	September: Not shipping	October: Not shipping	November: Shoulder	December: Peak
Spain February–May peak · January, June shoulder	January: Shoulder	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Peak	May: Peak	June: Shoulder	July: Not shipping	August: Not shipping	September: Not shipping	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.

Strawberries run counter to the European summer on purpose. Huelva in Spain and the Nile delta in Egypt both ship through the Northern Hemisphere winter and early spring, into the months when nothing local is fruiting.

Very little of the fresh crop goes by sea. Strawberries have a shelf life measured in days, so fresh volume moves by truck and by air, and the sea trade is frozen fruit going to processors. That distinction matters when reading this calendar: the window is the harvest, not a container programme.

Egypt

December–March peak · April, November shoulder Load ports: Alexandria, Damietta, and Port Said

Roughly November to April out of the Nile delta, on the same counter-season logic as the Spanish and Moroccan crops.

Most Egyptian strawberry volume is frozen rather than fresh, and it travels as a processing commodity in ordinary reefers rather than as a fragile fresh programme. The fresh trade exists but is small and moves by air.

Everything Egypt ships, month by month

Spain

February–May peak · January, June shoulder Load ports: Valencia, Algeciras, and Barcelona

Roughly January to June out of Huelva, which supplies most of the European fresh strawberry market in the first half of the year.

This is a truck trade and nothing else — fresh strawberries have days of life, not weeks. It is on this calendar because it explains why nobody ships fresh strawberries by sea, and why the Egyptian and Moroccan crops behave the way they do.

Everything Spain ships, month by month

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