Santa Fe, NM 87505 Frost Dates
Santa Fe, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
Santa Fe sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Santa Fe's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Santa Fe's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Santa Fe against the rest of the dataset
About 144 days separate Santa Fe's last and first frost, putting it 36,320 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 314 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87505's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Santa Fe's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Santa Fe can differ from the 87505 normal.