Taos, NM 87576 Frost Dates
87576, near Taos, NM: the frost window
Around 05/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 264 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 136 days after the last spring frost.
Taos 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
Taos's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Taos's last frost
05/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Taos against the rest of the dataset
About 136 days separate Taos's last and first frost, putting it 37,677 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 345 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87576: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Taos's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Taos's dates instead of trusting one.