Taos Ski Valley, NM 87525 Frost Dates
87525, near Taos Ski Valley, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 06/16, about 292 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/14, roughly 87 days after the last spring frost.
Taos Ski Valley 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
Taos Ski Valley's growing season runs out in roughly 2 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 06/16 isn't a guarantee
06/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 06/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 07/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Taos Ski Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 87 days separate Taos Ski Valley's last and first frost, putting it 39,973 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 420 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87525: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Taos Ski Valley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Taos Ski Valley's dates instead of trusting one.