Magdalena, NM 87825 Frost Dates
Magdalena, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/19, roughly 264 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 137 days after the last spring frost.
Magdalena sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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 Magdalena's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Magdalena's last frost
05/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Magdalena against the rest of the dataset
Magdalena's growing season runs about 137 days, ranking 37,545 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 335 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87825's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Magdalena's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Magdalena's dates instead of trusting one.