Last Frost Day

Frost history / Albuquerque Valley, NM

Albuquerque Valley, NM: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00290231, 1992 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,955 ft, 35.022, -106.694. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 19Oct 23
EarliestMar 25 (2006)Oct 6 (1995)
LatestMay 7 (1999)Nov 13 (2016)
Trend3.2 days earlier per decade4.8 days later per decade
Years with data3030

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020201992: Apr 201993: May 21994: Apr 301995: Apr 231996: Apr 301997: Apr 261998: Apr 191999: May 72000: Apr 22001: Apr 232002: Apr 222003: Apr 92004: Apr 122005: Apr 122006: Mar 252007: Apr 142008: May 22009: Apr 72010: May 12011: May 32012: Apr 162013: May 32014: Apr 162015: Apr 172016: Apr 192017: Apr 22018: Apr 182019: Apr 142020: Apr 152021: Apr 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201992: Oct 81993: Oct 211994: Oct 101995: Oct 61996: Oct 211997: Oct 131998: Oct 171999: Oct 182000: Nov 12001: Oct 112002: Oct 282003: Oct 262004: Oct 142005: Nov 12006: Oct 192007: Oct 222008: Oct 232009: Oct 272010: Oct 262011: Oct 282012: Oct 272013: Oct 62014: Nov 52015: Nov 52016: Nov 132017: Oct 292018: Nov 22019: Oct 112020: Oct 262021: Oct 13

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2021Apr 19Oct 13Mar 25Oct 17
2020Apr 15Oct 26Apr 15Oct 26
2019Apr 14Oct 11Apr 14Oct 11
2018Apr 18Nov 2Mar 20Nov 4
2017Apr 2Oct 29Mar 8Nov 18
2016Apr 19Nov 13Apr 2Nov 18
2015Apr 17Nov 5Apr 17Nov 6
2014Apr 16Nov 5Mar 20Nov 5
2013May 3Oct 6Apr 19Nov 6
2012Apr 16Oct 27Mar 21Oct 28
2011May 3Oct 28May 3Nov 3
2010May 1Oct 26Apr 8Oct 28
2009Apr 7Oct 27Apr 7Oct 27
2008May 2Oct 23May 2Oct 23
2007Apr 14Oct 22Mar 31Oct 22
2006Mar 25Oct 19Mar 25Nov 11
2005Apr 12Nov 1Apr 12Nov 16
2004Apr 12Oct 14Mar 6Oct 30
2003Apr 9Oct 26Mar 31Oct 26
2002Apr 22Oct 28Mar 21Oct 30
2001Apr 23Oct 11Mar 30Nov 20
2000Apr 2Nov 1Apr 2Nov 2
1999May 7Oct 18Apr 10Oct 18
1998Apr 19Oct 17Apr 19Nov 10
1997Apr 26Oct 13Apr 12Oct 25
1996Apr 30Oct 21Apr 15Oct 22
1995Apr 23Oct 6Apr 3Nov 3
1994Apr 30Oct 10Apr 12Nov 1
1993May 2Oct 21Apr 20Oct 28
1992Apr 20Oct 8Apr 3Oct 8

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.