Los Lunas, NM 87026 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Los Lunas, NM, ZIP 87026
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/04, about 145 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Los Lunas in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Los Lunas has about 5 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Los Lunas compares
At roughly 145 frost-free days, Los Lunas places 36,165 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 305 of 427.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Los Lunas's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Los Lunas's dates instead of trusting one.