Corrales, NM 87048 Frost Dates
87048, near Corrales, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Corrales, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Corrales's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Corrales's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Corrales against the rest of the dataset
About 203 days separate Corrales's last and first frost, putting it 16,875 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 125 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87048: local microclimates, on what one yard in Corrales can differ from the 87048 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Corrales's frost date answer different questions.