Month by month
Spanish oranges in September, before it starts
September turns the citrus year over rather than starting a season. The Generalitat publishes its crop forecast for the coming campaign this month, the export statistics begin a new year here, and none of our fruit is cut for weeks yet. Our earliest window, Navelina, does not open until the second half of October.
The figures
| Month | September |
|---|---|
| On the tree in this area | Nothing of ours is picked this month |
| Varieties in window | 0 |
| Crop forecast for the coming campaign | Published in September by the Conselleria de Agricultura |
| Sweet orange forecast, Comunitat Valenciana 2025/26 | 1,226,399 t, of which Navelina and Newhall 447,672 t and Lane Late 352,998 t |
| First window of ours to open | Navelina, second half of October |
| Valencian citrus exports in September | 34,649 t in the 2024/25 campaign, the first month of that campaign year |
What it changes on an order
You want to know what the coming season looks like
The forecast published this month is the first public read on it, and two of the varieties broken out in it are varieties we list. Use it to see which way the crop is going, then ask us separately what stands behind it here.
You are arranging an autumn programme
This is the last month before the fruit exists. Weeks, sizes and formats agreed now cost nothing to agree; the same conversation in November has to compete with a packing line that is already running.
You are weighing one origin against another
A regional forecast describes a region and a grower describes a holding. Those are different scales of answer and a purchase needs the second one, however useful the first is for framing the question.
What this note does not settle
- The forecast is a sample-based estimate for the whole Comunitat Valenciana. Our holding is five plantings inside that territory and the forecast says nothing whatever about them.
- The first citrus cut in Spain each year is an early mandarin rather than an orange, so a September offer of freshly picked Spanish orange deserves a question about its picking date.
- No weekly price observation exists for September in the series this site publishes, and the new campaign has not begun to be notified.
Source: Conselleria de Agricultura, Previsión de la cosecha de cítricos 2025/2026, IVIA, Calendario de recolección de los cítricos cultivados en España
A year that turns over with no fruit in it
Three things happen here and not one of them involves an orange of ours. The crop forecast for the coming campaign is published. The export year restarts its count from zero. And the earliest citrus in the Spanish calendar, a mandarin rather than an orange, begins to be cut. Our own first window is still a month and a half off.
That combination is more useful to a buyer than it sounds. It is the single point in the year where a public number about the coming crop exists and no fruit has been committed to anybody. Whatever you want to know about the season ahead, this is when asking costs least and the answer comes back least defensive.
What to settle while nothing is running
The work that makes a winter programme go well gets done about now. Agreeing an arrival protocol. Naming who signs off a substitution and how fast. Deciding what evidence a receiving team wants travelling with each pallet. In September none of that feels urgent and by December every piece of it is, so settle it while there is still room to argue properly.
This is also the right moment to hear what we cannot do. Our campaign covers autumn through to April and it stops there, and the cultivars that carry the Spanish year past that point are not grown here. A buyer told that in September has the whole season to arrange the rest of it, which is the reason the page says it now rather than later.
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.