Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM 87113 Frost Dates
87113, near Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque'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.
Why 04/25 isn't a guarantee
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Los Ranchos de Albuquerque's last and first frost, putting it 27,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 207 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87113: local microclimates, on what one yard in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque can differ from the 87113 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Los Ranchos de Albuquerque's frost date answer different questions.