Bernalillo, NM 87001 Frost Dates
Bernalillo, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bernalillo in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Bernalillo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bernalillo's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bernalillo against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Bernalillo's last and first frost, putting it 21,935 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 159 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87001's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bernalillo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bernalillo can differ from the 87001 normal.