Which fruits are in season in Pakistan right now?

The season table above gives the window for each fruit by growing region. Broadly: strawberries and kinnow in winter, watermelon and mango through the summer, grapes and pomegranate from Balochistan in autumn, guava and apple through the cooler months.

What are the winter fruits of Pakistan?

Kinnow and other mandarins, guava, pomegranate, apple, and strawberries from around January. Winter fruit stores far better than summer fruit, which is why its prices are steadier and its season effectively runs longer.

Why is imported fruit like pineapple and avocado so expensive in Pakistan?

Because none of it is commercially grown here. Every pineapple, avocado and kiwi on sale has been imported and chilled, so the price tracks the exchange rate and freight rather than a harvest, and it rises faster than it falls.

When is fruit cheapest in Pakistan?

At the peak of its own local season, which for most summer fruit is a window of a few weeks. Outside it the same fruit has been in cold storage or trucked from another province, and both cost money.

Where do Pakistan's apples, grapes and cherries come from?

Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan almost entirely. The northern uplands are cold enough for temperate fruit that will not set in the plains, which is why those seasons run weeks behind everything else on the list.

Fruit Prices in Pakistan

Rates updated: 13 August 2026

6 min readBy Mehran Yusuf

The short answer

Fruit is the most seasonal price in Pakistan, and most of what looks inexplicable about a fruit rate is explained by the calendar rather than by the market. In its own weeks, grown in the district that grows it, fruit is cheap and good. Four weeks either side of that window the same fruit has come out of cold storage or off a truck from another province, and it costs more and eats worse. Imported fruit — pineapple, avocado, kiwi — has no Pakistani season at all and is priced on the exchange rate. The table below gives observed ranges; the season table underneath is what actually predicts them.

Fruit rates by type

Ranges are yearly rather than weekly: a fruit at the peak of its own season and the same fruit in storage in March are the two ends of the range, not an error in it. Where we grow the crop ourselves you can see our gate price beside the retail one.

Fruit — observed ranges, PKR. Ranges, not fixed prices.
Item	Farm gate / mandi	Retail	Ours	Source
Strawberries†اسٹرابریShort season; the price collapses at the peak	—	₨500 – 900 / 500 g	₨650 / 500g packOrder from us	Our farm
Kinnow mandarins†کینوDecember to February; export grades leave the local market tighter	—	₨150 – 280 / kg	₨220 / kgOrder from us	Our farm
Watermelon†تربوزSold whole by weight. Cheapest in May and June, when Sindh's crop is in.	—	₨40 – 100 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Papaya†پپیتاGrown in lower Sindh and available across most of the year, with a dip in price after the summer rains.	—	₨150 – 350 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Banana†کیلاSindh grows most of Pakistan's bananas. Priced by the dozen, not the kilo.	—	₨150 – 350 / dozen	We don’t sell this	National average
Guava†امرودWinter fruit. The cheapest vitamin C in the country in season.	—	₨120 – 300 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Pomegranate†انارBalochistan's crop leads the market from September. Quality varies more than price does.	—	₨300 – 800 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Grapes†انگورBalochistan from July; imported the rest of the year at a considerable premium.	—	₨300 – 700 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Apple†سیبBalochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan. Stored apples sold in spring cost more and eat worse.	—	₨200 – 500 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Cherries†چیریGilgit-Baltistan and upper Balochistan, for roughly six weeks from late May.	—	₨1,200 – 3,000 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Pineapple†انناسReference only. Not commercially grown in Pakistan — every pineapple on sale here was imported, which is what the price is.	—	₨400 – 900 / each	We don’t sell this	National average
Avocado†ایوکاڈوReference only. Small trial plantings exist in Pakistan; the fruit in shops is imported.	—	₨900 – 2,000 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average
Kiwi†کیویReference only. Imported, mostly from Iran and China, heaviest in winter.	—	₨800 – 1,600 / kg	We don’t sell this	National average

† Indicative. These rows are compiled from market knowledge and trade rates rather than checked by us this month, and we are working through them. Rows without the mark are either our own transactions or figures we have verified directly — that distinction is the point of publishing this at all, so we would rather show it than quietly average the two together.

These are ranges we observe, not fixed prices: rates move with city, season and quality, and a farm-gate figure is never what you pay at a shop counter. Where we sell the item ourselves, the price shown is the one you are charged at checkout.

When each fruit is in season in Pakistan

The windows below are for Sindh and the southern Punjab unless the fruit is a northern one, in which case the growing region is named — Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan run several weeks behind the plains and produce most of the country's temperate fruit. Buying inside the window is the single largest saving available on fruit, and it is a bigger difference in eating quality than in price.

Main Pakistani season by fruit. Cold storage and imports extend availability well beyond these windows, at a price.
Fruit	Main season	Grown in	Notes
Strawberries	January – March	Punjab, Sindh	Short window; the first pick is the best and the dearest
Kinnow / mandarin	December – February	Punjab (Sargodha)	Pakistan's largest fruit export
Watermelon	April – July	Sindh, Punjab	Sindh's crop opens the season nationally
Mango	May – August	Sindh, Punjab	Sindhri from late May; Chaunsa closes it in August
Banana	Year round, best August – November	Sindh (Thatta, Badin)	Priced by the dozen
Papaya	Year round, dip after monsoon	Lower Sindh
Grapes	July – September	Balochistan	Imported for the rest of the year at a premium
Pomegranate	September – December	Balochistan	Quality varies far more than price does
Guava	October – February	Punjab, Sindh	The cheapest vitamin C in the country in season
Apple	August – November	Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan	Stored apples sold in spring cost more and eat worse
Cherries	Late May – early July	Gilgit-Baltistan, upper Balochistan	About six weeks, and expensive throughout
Pineapple, avocado, kiwi	No Pakistani season	Imported	Priced on the exchange rate, not the harvest

Winter fruit and summer fruit are different markets

Pakistan's summer fruit — mango, watermelon, melon, falsa — is grown in the plains, arrives in enormous volume over a few weeks, and collapses in price at the peak. Its problem is that none of it stores. The whole crop has to be sold while it is ripening, which is why a good mango year is a bad year to be a mango grower.

Winter fruit is the opposite. Kinnow, guava, apple and pomegranate all hold for weeks or months in the right conditions, so the price does not collapse the way summer fruit does, and the season is effectively stretched by cold storage into the spring. That is why winter fruit rates look steadier on a chart and why an out-of-season kinnow in April is still edible where an out-of-season mango is not.

Why imported fruit costs what it does

Pineapple, avocado and kiwi are not commercially grown in Pakistan at any scale, so every one on sale here has been imported, chilled, and cleared through customs. The price follows the rupee rather than any harvest, and when the currency moves the shelf price moves within weeks and does not come back down as fast as it went up.

There are small trial plantings of avocado in Pakistan and there is a real chance that changes over the next decade. Until it does, an avocado is an imported good with an imported good's price, and it is worth knowing that is what you are paying for rather than assuming a premium fruit is premium because it is better.

Common questions

Which fruits are in season in Pakistan right now?: The season table above gives the window for each fruit by growing region. Broadly: strawberries and kinnow in winter, watermelon and mango through the summer, grapes and pomegranate from Balochistan in autumn, guava and apple through the cooler months.
What are the winter fruits of Pakistan?: Kinnow and other mandarins, guava, pomegranate, apple, and strawberries from around January. Winter fruit stores far better than summer fruit, which is why its prices are steadier and its season effectively runs longer.
Why is imported fruit like pineapple and avocado so expensive in Pakistan?: Because none of it is commercially grown here. Every pineapple, avocado and kiwi on sale has been imported and chilled, so the price tracks the exchange rate and freight rather than a harvest, and it rises faster than it falls.
When is fruit cheapest in Pakistan?: At the peak of its own local season, which for most summer fruit is a window of a few weeks. Outside it the same fruit has been in cold storage or trucked from another province, and both cost money.
Where do Pakistan's apples, grapes and cherries come from?: Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan almost entirely. The northern uplands are cold enough for temperate fruit that will not set in the plains, which is why those seasons run weeks behind everything else on the list.