Gallup, NM 87327 Frost Dates
87327, near Gallup, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/29, roughly 274 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 127 days after the last spring frost.
Gallup sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Gallup's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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
05/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gallup against the rest of the dataset
About 127 days separate Gallup's last and first frost, putting it 38,605 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 366 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87327: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gallup's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gallup can differ from the 87327 normal.