Sunland Park, NM 79912 Frost Dates
79912, near Sunland Park, NM: the frost window
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sunland Park in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sunland Park's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Sunland Park's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sunland Park against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Sunland Park's last and first frost, putting it 10,148 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 21 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79912: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sunland Park can differ from the 79912 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Sunland Park's frost date answer different questions.