Cubero, New Mexico climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Cubero each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 90°F; December the coldest, with normal lows of 18°F. The most precipitation falls in July (1.92 in), the least in February (0.44 in).

When is the best weather to visit Cubero?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, April has the fewest days with rain (2).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in Cubero?

In Cubero, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after May 13 in half of years and after May 29 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 4 in half of years and before September 22 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

May 131 year in 10 after May 29; 9 in 10 after April 29

First autumn frost, half of years before

October 41 year in 10 before September 22; 9 in 10 before October 18

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 145 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 166 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 30 in half of springs and before October 15 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cubero in zone 6b in ZIP code 87014. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Cubero's NOAA station is in zone 6b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −3°F (30 complete years).

Frost dates for every NOAA station in New Mexico · Frost dates by ZIP code

How hot and how cold does it get in Cubero?

In a normal year in Cubero, 47 days a year reach 90°F (2 of them 100°F or more), 162 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 45 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

47a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

2a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

162a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

3high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

45a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

6a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1977) is 104°F, on June 22, 2015; the lowest is −27°F, on February 3, 2011.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 1990, with 15.93 in; the snowiest season is 1996–97, with 35.0 inches.

How sunny is Cubero?

Over a year 86% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Cubero, 5.5 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (90%) and December the cloudiest (80%).

How much heating and cooling does Cubero need?

A normal year in Cubero brings 5,153 heating degree days, 4% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 705 cooling degree days, 22% fewer than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 3,001 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Cubero been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 55.0°F, 2.3°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 52.7°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 40 complete years from 1977 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 5.7°F per century (+0.32°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Cubero share this climate record?

16 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Paraje, NM1,405 people · 4 mi SE
• Skyline-Ganipa, NM937 people · 7 mi SW
• Mesita, NM823 people · 13 mi SE
• Laguna, NM786 people · 7 mi SE
• Seama, NM686 people · 3 mi SW
• McCartys Village, NM670 people · 8 mi W
• Acomita Lake, NM649 people · 6 mi W
• Encinal, NM591 people · 3 mi NE
• North Acomita Village, NM338 people · 3 mi SW
• Highland Meadows, NM332 people · 22 mi SE
• Paguate, NM325 people · 8 mi NE
• South Acomita Village, NM214 people · 4 mi SW
• Seboyeta, NM212 people · 11 mi NE
• San Fidel, NM4 people · 5 mi W
• Bibo, NM0 people · 9 mi NE
• Moquino, NM0 people · 10 mi NE

Nearby and next

• New Mexico climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Grants, NM22 miles from this station, 50.1°F a year
• Thoreau (12 mi SE), NM39 miles from this station, 49.7°F a year
• Petroglyph National Mon, NM46 miles from this station, 57.6°F a year
• Pietown (19 mi NE), NM46 miles from this station, 49.6°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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