Albuquerque, NM 87158 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Albuquerque, NM, ZIP 87158
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 208 frost-free days later.
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 Albuquerque, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Albuquerque has about 10 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Albuquerque compares
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Albuquerque places 15,488 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 102 of 427.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Albuquerque can differ from the 87158 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Albuquerque's frost date answer different questions.