Tucumcari, NM 88401 Frost Dates
Tucumcari, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Tucumcari 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 8 weeks until Tucumcari's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Tucumcari's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tucumcari against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Tucumcari places 21,146 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 147 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88401's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Tucumcari can differ from the 88401 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Tucumcari's frost date answer different questions.