Anthony, NM 88021 Frost Dates
Anthony, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Anthony sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 11 weeks until Anthony's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Anthony's last frost
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.
Anthony against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Anthony's last and first frost, putting it 10,173 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 25 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88021's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Anthony can differ from the 88021 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Anthony's frost date answer different questions.