Santa Clara, NM 88049 Frost Dates
Santa Clara, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Santa Clara in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Santa Clara's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Santa Clara against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Santa Clara's last and first frost, putting it 13,831 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 75 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88049's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Santa Clara can differ from the 88049 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Santa Clara's frost date answer different questions.