Carlsbad, NM: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00291469, 1951 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,120 ft, 32.348, -104.222. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 2	Nov 4
Earliest	Feb 28 (2020)	Oct 8 (1976)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 29 (1995)
Trend	1.7 days earlier per decade	0.8 days later per decade
Years with data	55	53

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 16 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.

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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

First fall frost (32°F)

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

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2020	Feb 28	no data	Feb 28	no data
2019	Mar 7	Oct 26	Mar 6	Oct 31
2018	Mar 8	Nov 13	Mar 8	Nov 13
2017	Mar 3	Nov 19	Feb 17	Dec 8
2016	Apr 3	Nov 19	Feb 25	Nov 30
2015	no data	Nov 12	no data	Nov 13
2014	Apr 16	Nov 12	Apr 16	Nov 13
2013	May 4	Nov 7	Mar 26	Nov 22
2012	Mar 23	Oct 28	Mar 12	Nov 12
2011	Mar 10	Nov 3	Mar 10	Nov 4
2010	Apr 9	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 13
2009	no data	Oct 30	no data	Nov 17
2008	Mar 20	Nov 7	Mar 9	Nov 8
2007	Apr 9	Oct 23	Apr 9	Dec 13
2005	Apr 3	Nov 16	Apr 3	Nov 16
2004	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 30
2003	Mar 31	Nov 20	Mar 30	Nov 24
2002	Mar 27	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 28
2001	Mar 17	Nov 20	Feb 10	Nov 28
2000	Mar 21	Nov 7	Mar 21	Nov 18
1999	Mar 19	Nov 2	Feb 12	Nov 24
1998	Apr 19	Nov 10	Mar 11	Dec 7
1997	Apr 14	Oct 13	Mar 2	Nov 16
1996	Mar 26	Oct 23	Mar 10	Nov 25
1995	Apr 11	Nov 29	Mar 8	Dec 9
1994	Apr 6	Nov 28	Mar 29	Nov 28
1993	Mar 14	Oct 20	Mar 13	Oct 21
1992	Apr 3	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 8
1991	Mar 30	Oct 31	Mar 30	Oct 31
1990	Mar 17	Oct 22	Mar 2	Nov 28
1989	Apr 11	Oct 19	Mar 21	Nov 2
1987	Apr 7	Nov 10	Apr 4	Nov 12
1986	Apr 18	no data	Feb 14	no data
1985	Mar 31	no data	Mar 5	no data
1984	Mar 26	no data	Mar 7	no data
1983	Apr 14	no data	Apr 8	no data
1980	Apr 14	Oct 25	Mar 18	Oct 29
1979	Apr 4	Oct 31	Apr 4	Nov 2
1978	no data	Nov 17	no data	Nov 28
1977	Apr 4	no data	Mar 7	no data
1976	no data	Oct 8	no data	Oct 8
1974	Mar 25	no data	Mar 25	no data
1972	Apr 1	no data	Mar 31	no data
1971	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 20
1970	Apr 6	no data	Apr 2	no data
1969	Mar 25	Nov 3	Mar 17	Nov 15
1968	Mar 22	Oct 17	Mar 21	Nov 10
1967	Mar 9	Oct 30	Mar 9	Nov 3
1966	Mar 23	Oct 20	Mar 6	Nov 2
1965	Mar 26	Nov 26	Mar 26	Nov 28
1964	no data	Nov 6	no data	Nov 20
1963	Mar 19	Nov 20	Mar 7	Nov 23
1962	Apr 2	Nov 8	Mar 16	Nov 18
1961	Apr 12	Nov 3	Mar 20	Nov 15
1960	Apr 3	Oct 31	Mar 18	Oct 31
1959	Apr 13	Nov 6	Apr 13	Nov 6
1958	Apr 14	Nov 18	Mar 12	Nov 18
1957	Apr 9	Oct 27	Apr 9	Nov 22
1956	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 4
1954	Mar 17	no data	Mar 14	no data
1953	Apr 12	Nov 9	Mar 14	Nov 10
1952	Apr 10	Nov 5	Mar 29	Nov 11
1951	Apr 13	Nov 2	Mar 19	Nov 3

"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.