Santa Fe, NM 87083 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Santa Fe, NM, ZIP 87083
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 164 frost-free days later.
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 Santa Fe, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Santa Fe has about 7 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.
The actual range around Santa Fe's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Santa Fe compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Santa Fe places 30,823 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 226 of 427.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Santa Fe's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Santa Fe can differ from the 87083 normal.