Last and first frost dates in Las Cruces

When is the last frost in Las Cruces?

The last frost in Las Cruces usually comes around 28 February: that is the median of 2016–2025, so in about half of those years the last night at or below 0 °C came later. Hardy crops start before it and frost-tender ones only after it: in the table below arugula can go into open ground from 7 February, while corn waits until 7 March. The first autumn frost follows around 24 November, about 269 days later: harvest or cover frost-tender crops before then.

When to sow and plant

Planting out: a week after the last frost once the soil is warm enough for the crop; frost-hardy crops three weeks before it; an unheated greenhouse three weeks earlier. Seedlings are sown so they are ready on that day. Each window starts on the Greenly calendar date and ends on the last day that still leaves the crop’s days to harvest (from its card) before the average first autumn frost, plus six weeks of picking for crops harvested over weeks (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins, watermelons, beans) — our rule; earlier in the window is safer.

When the soil warms up in Las Cruces

The day the top 7 cm of soil first averages each temperature over a week, median of 2016–2025 (ERA5 via Open-Meteo). The soil reaches 10 °C 22 days before the last spring frost and 15 °C 17 days after it.

Frost dates near Las Cruces

Of the nearest cities on our list, the last spring frost ends earliest in Tucson (6 February) and latest in Santa Fe (United States) (20 April).

Seeds, seedlings and markets in Las Cruces

Within 15 km of Las Cruces OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres and 1 market (collected 28 October 2026). The nearest market to the city centre is Peddler's Pavillion, 3 km away.

• Peddler's Pavillion — market
  West Picacho Avenue 2400 · 3 km · peddlerspavilion.net

• Where to buy seeds and seedlings in Las Cruces
• Selling your own harvest in the United States

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Weather in Las Cruces by month

Average weather in Las Cruces over 2016–2025: the warmest month is July. Months that average 20 °C or more by day: March–November (20.1–36.2 °C). Months that average 30 °C or more by day: May–September (31.4–36.2 °C). No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 1.1 °C. About 209 mm of rain falls in a year, on 35 days; August is the wettest month (40 mm) and April the driest (4 mm).

Average of the daily highs and lows, rain per month and days with at least 1 mm (ERA5 via Open-Meteo, the same grid cell as the frost dates).

Planted in autumn

From a month before the first autumn frost, so the roots grow before winter, to the late-planting limit on each crop’s page (about two weeks before the ground freezes, by ten years of weather).