Sunland Park, NM 88008 Frost Dates
88008, near Sunland Park, NM: the frost window
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sunland Park in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sunland Park's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sunland Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Sunland Park places 10,150 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 23 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88008: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sunland Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sunland Park can differ from the 88008 normal.