Las Vegas, NM 87538 Frost Dates
Las Vegas, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Las Vegas, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Las Vegas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset
Las Vegas's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 14,984 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 84 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87538's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Las Vegas can differ from the 87538 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions.