Bernalillo, NM 87052 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
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Bernalillo places 21,937 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 161 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87052's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bernalillo can differ from the 87052 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Bernalillo's frost date answer different questions.