Sunland Park, NM 79922 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sunland Park, NM, ZIP 79922
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 261 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Sunland Park, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Sunland Park has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Sunland Park's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sunland Park compares
Sunland Park's growing season runs about 261 days, ranking 6,388 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 1 of 427.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Sunland Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Sunland Park's dates instead of trusting one.