When Is Mango Season? A Month-by-Month Variety Calendar

Ask when mango season is and you’ll get a shrug: “summer?” True, but useless — because which mangoes you can get, and when your own tree fruits, depends entirely on variety. Across the 300+ varieties documented in Mango Atlas, harvest windows stretch from March to January. Here’s the real shape of the season, based on harvest records from Florida and similar Northern Hemisphere subtropical climates (Southern Hemisphere growers: flip the calendar six months).

The shape of the season

• March–April — the early birds. A small vanguard ripens before most trees have even finished flowering. About 27 documented varieties are picking by April.
• May — the ramp. Over 90 varieties come online, including Glenn, one of the best early-season eating mangoes Florida ever produced.
• June — peak begins. This is the single biggest month in the calendar: 223 varieties in harvest. Alphonso, Haden, Carrie, and Cogshall all hit their stride.
• July — peak, part two. Nearly as big, with 218 varieties picking — and arguably the best of the flavor heavyweights: Lemon Zest, Sweet Tart, Pickering, Ice Cream.
• August — the closers. The crowd thins to around 47 varieties, but quality stays high: Kent finishes, Honey Kiss delivers its rich honey flavor almost alone on the calendar.
• September–December — the long tail. This is Keitt territory: a huge, late, mild mango that hangs on the tree from September into December. A handful of true stragglers — plus oddball off-season bloomers — carry fruit into January.

Why this matters if you grow mangoes

The calendar is the cheapest planning tool there is. Plant an early, a peak, and a late variety and you’re eating fresh mangoes for more than half the year off three trees. Plant three June varieties and your entire crop lands in four overwhelming weeks.

It also sets your disease clock: fungicide timing keys off flowering, not the calendar month — early varieties need protection long before late ones. (See our disease guide for the spray schedule.)

Why it matters if you just eat them

Supermarket mangoes are a rotating cast — the Tommy Atkins and Keitt you see in December is a different fruit from the Kent of August. Once you know the calendar, “mango season” becomes a sequence of distinct fruits worth chasing, not a single generic window.

Every variety in Mango Atlas lists its harvest months alongside flavor and growing profiles — and the want-to-try list means that when a variety’s short window opens, you actually remember to hunt it down.