Socorro 20 N, NM: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003048, 2003 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,847 ft, 34.356, -106.886. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 28
Earliest	Mar 22 (2012)	Oct 11 (2013)
Latest	May 3 (2011)	Nov 18 (2016)
Trend	1.4 days later per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	20	22

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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)

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
2024	Apr 10	Oct 31	Mar 10	Oct 31
2023	Apr 16	Oct 30	Apr 6	Oct 30
2022	no data	Oct 25	no data	Oct 25
2021	Apr 19	Oct 14	Apr 19	Nov 12
2020	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 15	Oct 26
2019	Apr 14	Oct 12	Mar 17	Oct 21
2018	Apr 18	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 12
2017	Apr 5	Oct 28	Mar 8	Nov 18
2016	Apr 4	Nov 18	Apr 2	Nov 18
2015	Apr 18	Nov 6	Apr 17	Nov 12
2014	Apr 4	Nov 5	Apr 4	Nov 13
2013	Apr 24	Oct 11	Apr 19	Nov 2
2012	Mar 22	Oct 26	Mar 21	Oct 27
2011	May 3	Oct 28	May 3	Nov 3
2010	May 1	Oct 28	Apr 8	Oct 28
2009	Apr 7	Oct 28	Apr 6	Oct 29
2008	Apr 18	Oct 23	Apr 18	Oct 23
2007	Apr 14	Oct 22	Mar 5	Oct 22
2006	Mar 25	Oct 19	Mar 23	Nov 11
2005	Apr 13	Nov 1	Mar 27	Nov 16
2004	Apr 12	Oct 30	Feb 26	Nov 2
2003	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 5

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.