Santa Fe, NM 87574 Frost Dates
Santa Fe, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. 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
Santa Fe's growing season runs about 144 days, ranking 36,322 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 316 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87574's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Santa Fe's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Santa Fe's dates instead of trusting one.