Mushroom calendar

When do mumps appear: month by month?

When they are found

When they are born the mumps.

The season varies from one part of the world to another: here are all the regions compared, each with its own months.

Pleurotus ostreatus

The shape of the season in the United States and Canada, which is the region with the most observations (31,441).

January: 8.3% of observationsGFebruary: 3.4% of observationsFMarch: 1.9% of observationsMApril: 4.0% of observationsAMay: 13% of observations13%MJune: 11% of observationsGJuly: 10% of observationsLAugust: 9.5% of observationsASeptember: 7.1% of observationsSOctober: 8.4% of observationsONovember: 9.9% of observationsNDecember: 13% of observationsD
Month-by-month observation rate. May stands out, as the month with the most documented finds.

Region by region

RegionThey are foundMaximumObservations
United States and Canada From May to December May 31,441
Scandinavia From July to January January 20,485
Central Europe From September to February December 10,963
United Kingdom and Ireland From July to February October 8,839
Spain From July to December October 2,087
France From August to February October 1,487
Australia and New Zealand From January to July May 1,359
Italy From October to January November 320
Northern Italy From October to January November 206

The grey lines have few public comments: the month indicated is indicative, and there is no dedicated page.

Because every year is different

  • The season opens with rain: after a heavy rain, with the soil still warm, it takes one or two weeks.
  • In mountain It begins earlier and ends earlier than on the plain, and the same is true for the northern slopes.
  • A'dry summer It pushes it forward, sometimes by weeks. A mild autumn lengthens it.

The calendar says the months. Which day, in your forest, this year, the rain that fell there tells you: MushScout follows it day by day and tells you when it's time.

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Data: GBIF.org — GBIF.org, observations with coordinates 2011-2025, counts by month (facet). The observations say when people have documented a find, not how many mushrooms there were.

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