Santa Fe, NM 87592 Frost Dates
Santa Fe, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 167 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 Santa Fe, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Santa Fe's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/02 isn't a guarantee
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Santa Fe against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Santa Fe's last and first frost, putting it 29,843 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 222 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87592's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Santa Fe's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Santa Fe can differ from the 87592 normal.