Taos, NM 87549 Frost Dates
Taos, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/31, roughly 276 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 118 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Taos, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 4 weeks until Taos's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Taos's last frost
05/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Taos against the rest of the dataset
About 118 days separate Taos's last and first frost, putting it 39,198 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 388 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87549's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Taos's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Taos can differ from the 87549 normal.