Mushroom calendar

When nails are born: month by month

When they are found

When they are born the nails.

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

Honey fungus

The shape of the season in the United States and Canada, which is the region with the most observations (18,737).

January: 9.1% of observationsGFebruary: 0.9% of observationsFMarch: 0.5% of observationsMApril: 0.5% of observationsAMay: 0.7% of observationsMJune: 1.1% of observationsGJuly: 1.5% of observationsLAugust: 3.9% of observationsASeptember: 25% of observations25%SOctober: 23% of observationsONovember: 13% of observationsNDecember: 21% of observationsD
Month-by-month observation rate. September stands out, as the month with the most documented finds.

Region by region

RegionThey are foundMaximumObservations
United States and Canada From September to December September 18,737
Scandinavia From September to November October 12,649
United Kingdom and Ireland From September to November October 11,558
Central Europe From October to November October 7,763
Australia and New Zealand From April to June May 4.202
France From September to November October 3,522
Spain From October to November October 2,356
Italy From October to November October 815
Northern Italy From October to November October 564
Central Italy From October to November October 148
Southern Italy and islands From October to December November 103

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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