Silver City, NM 88065 Frost Dates
88065, near Silver City, NM: the frost window
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 Silver City 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
Silver City's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
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.
Silver City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Silver City places 13,757 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 69 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88065: the frost range, on how to read the range around Silver City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Silver City can differ from the 88065 normal.