Month by month
Spanish oranges in August, counted on the tree
August is when the coming campaign gets counted rather than picked. The Generalitat sends surveyors round the citrus plots from the end of July to the middle of August to establish variety and production, and what they produce is the first hard figure of the year. In the trade it is the quietest month of the whole citrus calendar.
The figures
| Month | August |
|---|---|
| On the tree in this area | Nothing of ours is picked this month |
| Varieties in window | 0 |
| Crop forecast fieldwork | End of July to mid August, to establish variety and production |
| Plots surveyed for the 2025/26 forecast | 11,028 plots across 5,415 ha visited |
| Valencian citrus exports in August | 29,892 t in the 2023/24 campaign, the smallest month of that year |
| Weekly market observations we hold | ISO weeks 32 and 33, the most recent we hold, with the national average at its highest |
What it changes on an order
You want an early read on the coming season
The number being built this month is the first public statement about the crop you will be buying in the winter. It is published next month and it is a forecast, which is worth knowing before anyone quotes it at you as though it were stock.
You need Spanish citrus in August
We have none. The Spanish harvest calendar opens its year here with early mandarins, and the sweet oranges are months behind them, so an August offer of Spanish orange is stored fruit and should be described as such.
You are reading the published market this month
The freshest observation available sits several weeks behind the week it describes, and it describes a market with almost no Spanish fruit moving through it. A high figure in August is a statement about thinness.
What this note does not settle
- A crop forecast is an estimate built from a random sample of the territory, and the document that publishes it says so plainly. It commits no grower to anything and it commits us to nothing.
- The monthly export figures cover all citrus leaving the Comunitat Valenciana. Oranges are one part of that and stored fruit is another.
- We hold no figure of our own for August, and our own picking dates for the coming campaign are still unpublished.
Source: Conselleria de Agricultura, Previsión de la cosecha de cítricos 2025/2026, IVIA, Calendario de recolección de los cítricos cultivados en España
How a crop gets counted before it is picked
The Valencian forecast is not a committee guessing. The territory is cut into blocks and cells, a sample of citrus plots is drawn at random, and surveyors walk them twice: once in late spring to establish the area, then from the end of July to the middle of August to establish variety and production. The result is published a few weeks after they finish.
Knowing that changes how the figure should be read. It is a sample extrapolated across a region, taken while fruit is still sizing on the tree, and the document that carries it is explicit on both points. It describes the direction of a crop rather well. It describes any individual holding not at all, and ours is one of those.
The floor of the citrus year
Measured by what actually leaves the Comunitat Valenciana, this is the smallest month of the citrus year. What goes out is a fraction of the December figure, and most of it has been sitting in a store first. That thinness is what a buyer is really looking at when a weekly average reads strong in high summer.
It is also the last month of the statistical campaign year, which ends where the harvest calendar ends. From next month the counters reset, the forecast appears, and the earliest mandarins start coming off the tree. Our own fruit is a long way behind even those.
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.