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    Carlsbad, NM · 57°F

    How much snow does Carlsbad, New Mexico get?

    Zero flakes. Zero chill.

    Clouds now. No snow in the next 5 days.

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    Snow in the next 5 days

    • Satclouds62° / 54°
    • Sunclear skies62° / 47°
    • Monclouds52° / 47°
    • Tueclouds54° / 47°
    • Wedclouds65° / 49°

    No snow for Carlsbad this week. The sky’s saving it for a bigger entrance.

    Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.

    A typical winter

    Snow a year
    3 in
    Days with 1 in or more
    1
    Winter high
    60°F
    Winter low
    32°F
    First freeze
    Nov 12
    Last freeze
    Mar 17
    Nights at 32°F or below
    75
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    0.7, 1.0, 0.4 in

    January is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about one inch.

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Nov 12 and the last spring one around Mar 17, which leaves about 240 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 32°F to 60°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 75 nights a year.

    Towns with about the same snow

    More towns in New Mexico

    • Red River: about 157 inches of snow a year
    • Chama: about 92 inches of snow a year
    • Dulce: about 56 inches of snow a year
    • Cimarron: about 40 inches of snow a year
    • Jemez Springs: about 23 inches of snow a year

    More about the weather around here

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00291469 at Carlsbad. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.