Clayton, NM 88415 Frost Dates
Clayton, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Clayton sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 7 weeks until Clayton'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
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clayton against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Clayton's last and first frost, putting it 29,034 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 212 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88415's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Clayton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Clayton's dates instead of trusting one.