The heat capacity, Cp, of five solid-solution members of the almandine(Alm)-spessartine(Sps) binary, consisting of three synthetic polycrystalline and two natural single-crystal samples, was measured in the temperature range between 2 and 300 K using relaxation calorimetry and between 282 and 764 K using DSC methods. All garnets exhibit a λ-type heat-capacity anomaly at low temperatures resulting from a paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase transition. The temperature of the magnetic transition in Fe-rich garnets occurs between those of the two end-members (i.e. 9.2 K for almandine and 6.2 K for spessartine), but lies at lower values between 3.5 and 4.5 K for more Sps-rich compositions with .