Albuquerque, NM 87193 Frost Dates
87193, near Albuquerque, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
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
Albuquerque's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albuquerque against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Albuquerque's last and first frost, putting it 15,497 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 111 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87193: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Albuquerque's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Albuquerque's dates instead of trusting one.