Frost history / Las Cruces 20 N, NM
Las Cruces 20 N, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003074, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,327 ft, 32.614, -106.741. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 27 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 31 (2020) | Oct 6 (2013) |
| Latest | May 15 (2014) | Nov 14 (2016) |
| Trend | 21.1 days earlier per decade | 7.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 17 | 18 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 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 | Apr 10 | Oct 31 |
| 2023 | Apr 6 | Oct 30 | Apr 6 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 | Mar 19 | Nov 5 |
| 2021 | Apr 10 | Oct 15 | Mar 31 | Nov 11 |
| 2020 | Mar 31 | Oct 26 | Mar 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Apr 13 | Oct 21 | Apr 11 | Oct 25 |
| 2018 | Apr 15 | Nov 2 | Apr 14 | Nov 12 |
| 2017 | Apr 30 | Oct 28 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 |
| 2016 | May 2 | Nov 14 | Apr 3 | Nov 18 |
| 2015 | May 10 | Nov 6 | Apr 18 | Nov 6 |
| 2014 | May 15 | Oct 14 | Apr 15 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Oct 6 | Apr 20 | Oct 17 |
| 2012 | Apr 17 | Oct 27 | Apr 15 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | May 11 | Oct 8 | May 3 | Nov 3 |
| 2010 | May 13 | Oct 28 | May 3 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 27 | Oct 29 | Apr 17 | Oct 29 |
| 2008 | May 3 | Oct 15 | Apr 26 | Oct 23 |
| 2007 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 23 |
"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.