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How long does Coffee last in the fridge once opened?

4 kinds · each with its own window

Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum · Once opened · in the fridge

Use by1 month

Counted from the day you opened it

Quality window · past it, judge it yourself

How this date is worked out

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Turning the range into a date

Coffee (commercial ground, non-vacuum) keeps 1 month in the fridge once opened. Each kind gets its own dated rows here, 12 rows across the 4 the USDA lists under this name, because a date is only worth printing against the window it belongs to.

Coffee, whole beans

Unopened · in the pantryUse by3 months to 5 months after the day you bought it
Once opened · in the pantryUse by3 months to 5 months after the day you opened it
Once opened · in the fridgeUse by3 months to 4 months after the day you opened it

Coffee, home ground, non-vacuum

In the freezerUse by1 year to 2 years after the day you stored it
Unopened · in the pantryUse by3 months to 5 months after the day you bought it
Once opened · in the pantryUse by3 weeks to 5 weeks after the day you opened it

Coffee, instant

Unopened · in the pantryUse by1 year after the day you bought it
Once opened · in the pantryUse by2 months to 3 months after the day you opened it

Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum

In the freezerUse by6 months to 12 months after the day you stored it
Unopened · in the pantryUse by2 years after the day you bought it
Once opened · in the pantryUse by2 weeks after the day you opened it
Once opened · in the fridgeUse by1 month after the day you opened it

Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum · Unopened · in the pantry

2 years

Counted from the day you bought it

24×

Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum · What opening the package costs730 days sealed in the pantry ÷ 30 days open in the fridge

The USDA rates 4 kinds of this separately

Coffee, home ground, non-vacuum keeps 3 weeks, which is shorter than the window this page answers with. The USDA files 4 separate entries under this name — whole beans, home ground, non-vacuum, instant and commercial ground, non-vacuum — and they do not keep for the same time: Coffee, whole beans holds 3 months to 5 months outside the freezer, Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum holds 2 years.

What opening the package actually costs

Opening the package is the decision that settles this page. Sealed, the item holds 2 years sealed in the pantry; once open it holds 1 month open in the fridge, the same food measured in months instead of years, a drop of 24 times. On the same shelf it sits 4 of 22, between White wine at 2 years and Diet powder mixes and drink mixes at 24 months.

Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item

All three places the USDA recognizes are rated here — pantry, refrigerator and freezer — which only 65 of the 466 foods in the data manage. The source also indexes it as whole beans, beans, whole and bean.

Coffee, whole beans

Unopened · in the pantry3 months to 5 months
Once opened · in the pantry3 months to 5 months
Once opened · in the fridge3 months to 4 months

Coffee, home ground, non-vacuum

In the freezer1 year to 2 years
Unopened · in the pantry3 months to 5 months
Once opened · in the pantry3 weeks to 5 weeks

Coffee, instant

Unopened · in the pantry1 year
Once opened · in the pantry2 months to 3 months

Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum

In the freezer6 months to 12 months
Unopened · in the pantry2 years
Once opened · in the pantry2 weeks
Once opened · in the fridge1 month

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What the USDA adds in words

The USDA attaches 2 handling notes to this item, reproduced below word for word. None of them is a storage time: they qualify the figures above rather than replacing them. These are the source's own sentences, not ours, and they are the part of the FoodKeeper record that a table of durations cannot carry.

Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum, in the freezer. Do not return to freezer once taken out.

Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum, in the refrigerator. Critical to be stored in an airtight container.

Can you freeze coffee?

Yes. The USDA gives coffee (commercial ground, non-vacuum) 6–12 months in the freezer, and held at 0 °F food stays safe beyond that: the figure is about quality. Liquids expand as they freeze, so leave headroom in the container and never freeze a sealed glass bottle.

How to tell if coffee has gone bad

Go by the date first: coffee keeps 1 month in the fridge once opened. Unexpected fizzing, cloudiness, floating strands or a sour smell mean it goes out. Once opened, keep it in the fridge at 40 °F or below. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.

Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing and food safety FDA: are you storing food safely FoodSafety.gov: the FoodKeeper app.

Is it still safe to eat, or just past its best?

The answer at the top of this page reads 1 month in the fridge once opened. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum is acid, dry, sweet, alcoholic or pure fat. Past it, whether it has gone bad is yours to judge by look and smell: this window rates quality, not the day it turns hazardous.

It is past the date. Now what?

Say the calculator above puts Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum past its 1 month in the fridge once opened window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. Fizzing that should not be there, cloudiness, floating strands or a sour smell mean it goes out whatever the date says.

The whole rule, including the cases the source does not cover, is set out under what to do when the date has passed.

Two places, and one of them is the wrong one

The USDA rates two places for Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum in one state and they disagree: 1 month in the fridge once opened against 2 weeks in the pantry once opened. This page answers with the refrigerator, the longer of the two. Both figures are the USDA's own, so this is a choice of where to put the food rather than a disagreement about how long it keeps.

Items that behave the same way

Every one of the 6 nearest items keeps the same or less, 18 months to 2 years against the 2 years of Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum, which makes it the durable end of the cluster.

Where these numbers come from

Every storage time on this page is the USDA’s own published figure from the FoodKeeper data, one of the 9 it keeps per food, reproduced unchanged and never an estimate of ours. Where the USDA lists several kinds under one name, each kind keeps its own windows, and the page names the kind its answer is for. The dates and multipliers are ours, computed from those ranges.

Source: USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026. Found a figure that does not match the source? Tell us on the contact page. How the site is built is on the method page.

Comparisons and the place in the category are computed for Coffee, commercial ground, non-vacuum, which is the kind the plain name means here, chosen kind by kind rather than by the order the source happens to list them in.

USDA index terms: bean, beans, commercial ground, ground, home, home ground, instant, non vacuum, non-vacuum, vacuum, whole, whole beans

KeepsUntil is an independent reference built on public USDA data. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Food and Drug Administration. Whether a given window is a safety limit or a quality window is stated on the page that prints it.