Cuba, NM 87064 Frost Dates
87064, near Cuba, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Cuba sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cuba's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cuba against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Cuba places 29,759 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 218 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87064: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cuba can differ from the 87064 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Cuba's frost date answer different questions.