Los Lunas, New Mexico climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Los Lunas's normal year runs from 20°F December nights to 93°F July afternoons, with 9.2 inches of precipitation and 5 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 13.4°C, December lows of −7°C, July highs of 34°C, 234 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationLos Lunas (3 mi SSW)
- Station IDUSC00295150
- Location34.77°N 106.76°W
- Elevation4,840 ft (1,475 m)
- Population19,907
On October 23, the normal high in Los Lunas is 72°F and the normal low 35°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 13%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Los Lunas.
- Jan 51° 19°
- Feb 58° 23°
- Mar 66° 30°
- Apr 73° 37°
- May 82° 46°
- Jun 92° 56°
- Jul 93° 62°
- Aug 91° 60°
- Sep 85° 52°
- Oct 74° 38°
- Nov 61° 27°
- Dec 50° 20°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Los Lunas each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; December the coldest, with normal lows of 20°F. The most precipitation falls in July (1.55 in), the least in February (0.42 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 51°F | 19°F | 35.2°F | 0.45 | 1.5 | 3 | <1 | 30 | 10 h |
| February | 58°F | 23°F | 40.5°F | 0.42 | 0.7 | 3 | <1 | 26 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 66°F | 30°F | 47.9°F | 0.54 | 0.3 | 3 | <1 | 22 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 73°F | 37°F | 55.1°F | 0.55 | 0.0 | 3 | <1 | 9 | 13 h |
| May | 82°F | 46°F | 64.1°F | 0.49 | 0.0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 14 h |
| June | 92°F | 56°F | 73.7°F | 0.52 | 0.0 | 3 | 23 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| July | 93°F | 62°F | 77.7°F | 1.55 | 0.0 | 8 | 26 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| August | 91°F | 60°F | 75.7°F | 1.53 | 0.0 | 8 | 24 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 85°F | 52°F | 68.3°F | 1.15 | 0.0 | 6 | 11 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 74°F | 38°F | 56.4°F | 0.92 | 0.4 | 4 | <1 | 9 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 61°F | 27°F | 43.7°F | 0.57 | 0.6 | 3 | <1 | 26 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 50°F | 20°F | 35.0°F | 0.54 | 1.6 | 3 | <1 | 30 | 9 h 50 min |
| Year (annual) | 73°F | 39°F | 56.1°F | 9.23 | 5.1 | 52 | 92 | 152 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11°C | −7°C | 1.8°C | 11 mm | 4 cm |
| February | 14°C | −5°C | 4.7°C | 11 mm | 2 cm |
| March | 19°C | −1°C | 8.8°C | 14 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 23°C | 3°C | 12.8°C | 14 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 28°C | 8°C | 17.8°C | 12 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 33°C | 13°C | 23.2°C | 13 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 34°C | 17°C | 25.4°C | 39 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 33°C | 16°C | 24.3°C | 39 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 29°C | 11°C | 20.2°C | 29 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 24°C | 4°C | 13.6°C | 23 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 16°C | −3°C | 6.5°C | 14 mm | 2 cm |
| December | 10°C | −7°C | 1.7°C | 14 mm | 4 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00295150; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Los Lunas?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, September and October. Of those, April has the fewest days with rain (3).
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.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00295150.
When is the last frost in Los Lunas?
In Los Lunas, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 23 in half of years and after May 6 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 21 in half of years and before October 7 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- April 231 year in 10 after May 6; 9 in 10 after April 9
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 211 year in 10 before October 7; 9 in 10 before November 2
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 178 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 201 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 8 in half of springs and before October 31 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Los Lunas in zone 7b in ZIP code 87031, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Los Lunas's NOAA station is in zone 7a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 4°F (30 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.
Frost dates for every NOAA station in New Mexico · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00295150; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
How hot and how cold does it get in Los Lunas?
In a normal year in Los Lunas, 92 days a year reach 90°F (13 of them 100°F or more), 152 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 52 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 92a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 13a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 152a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 52a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 2a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1923) is 108°F, on June 28, 2013; the lowest is −25°F, on January 7, 1971.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1986, with 14.87 in; the snowiest season is 2000–01, with 18.1 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00295150; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00295150. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Los Lunas?
Over a year 87% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Los Lunas, 5.7 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (91%) and December the cloudiest (83%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 84% | 3.4 |
| February | 84% | 4.3 |
| March | 86% | 5.8 |
| April | 88% | 7.0 |
| May | 89% | 7.8 |
| June | 91% | 8.1 |
| July | 86% | 7.3 |
| August | 87% | 6.7 |
| September | 88% | 5.9 |
| October | 90% | 4.9 |
| November | 87% | 3.7 |
| December | 83% | 3.0 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Los Lunas need?
A normal year in Los Lunas brings 4,405 heating degree days, 18% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,192 cooling degree days, 31% more than the median (908). Five months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 3,837 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 924 | 0 |
| February | 685 | 0 |
| March | 530 | 0 |
| April | 299 | 3 |
| May | 92 | 62 |
| June | 5 | 264 |
| July | 0 | 395 |
| August | 1 | 332 |
| September | 29 | 129 |
| October | 274 | 6 |
| November | 638 | 0 |
| December | 931 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 4,405 | 1,192 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00295150. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Los Lunas been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 57.5°F, 1.4°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 56.1°F. 3 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 56.4°F | +0.3°F | 6.38 | – |
| 2022 | 55.4°F | −0.7°F | 9.11 | 6.1 |
| 2023 | 56.1°F | at normal | 5.71 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 57.2°F | +1.1°F | 9.04 | 4.3 |
| 2025 | 57.5°F | +1.4°F | 7.39 | – |
Over 87 complete years from 1894 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.3°F per century (+0.13°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00295150; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Los Lunas's climate compare?
Los Lunas is warmer than 57 of the other 97 places with their own NOAA record in New Mexico, and wetter than 5. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 56.1°F is warmer than 64%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Los Lunas is BSk: cold semi-arid steppe. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Los Lunas share this climate record?
17 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.
- Belen, NM7,556 people · 3 mi W
- El Cerro Mission, NM5,101 people · 7 mi E
- Rio Communities, NM4,927 people · 9 mi S
- Los Chaves, NM4,641 people · 2 mi S
- Bosque Farms, NM4,138 people · 7 mi NE
- Meadow Lake, NM3,959 people · 11 mi E
- Peralta, NM3,470 people · 6 mi NE
- El Cerro, NM3,093 people · 4 mi E
- Valencia, NM2,219 people · 5 mi NE
- Jarales, NM1,939 people · 11 mi S
- Las Maravillas, NM1,776 people · 6 mi E
- Tome, NM1,525 people · 3 mi SE
- Adelino, NM892 people · 5 mi S
- Monterey Park, NM814 people · 6 mi E
- Sausal, NM783 people · 6 mi S
- Pueblitos, NM534 people · 11 mi S
- Chical, NM148 people · 9 mi NE
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Los Lunas's climate
What is the coldest month in Los Lunas?
December, with a normal high of 50°F and a normal low of 20°F. The warmest is July (93°F by day, 62°F at night).
Does it snow in Los Lunas?
Yes: 5 inches in a normal year, falling on 3 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in December (1.6 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Los Lunas?
July, with 1.55 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 0.42 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Los Lunas in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Los Lunas in zone 7b in ZIP code 87031, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Los Lunas's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 4°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 7a.
How late can frost come in Los Lunas?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 23; in one year in ten it comes after May 6. Waiting until May 6 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- New Mexico climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- South Valley, NM18 miles from this station, 56.9°F a year
- Albuquerque, NM21 miles from this station, 57.9°F a year
- Bernardo, NM24 miles from this station, 56.8°F a year
- Rio Grande Nature Center, NM25 miles from this station, 56.7°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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