Las Vegas, NM 87736 Frost Dates
Las Vegas, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 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 Las Vegas, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Las Vegas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Las Vegas's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 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 149 days, ranking 35,491 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 273 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87736's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one.