Santa Fe, NM 87509 Frost Dates
Santa Fe, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Santa Fe in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 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
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Santa Fe against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Santa Fe places 29,841 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 220 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87509's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Santa Fe can differ from the 87509 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Santa Fe's frost date answer different questions.