Raton, NM 87740 Frost Dates
Raton, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 05/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 256 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
Raton sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 5 weeks until Raton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Raton's last frost
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Raton against the rest of the dataset
About 145 days separate Raton's last and first frost, putting it 36,182 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 312 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87740's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Raton can differ from the 87740 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Raton's frost date answer different questions.