Peralta, NM 87042 Frost Dates
Peralta, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Peralta, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Peralta's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Peralta against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Peralta's last and first frost, putting it 15,615 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 121 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87042's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Peralta's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Peralta's dates instead of trusting one.