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Weather in Taos, NM · National Weather Service + NOAA

Winter means it in Taos

Taos has cold winters and warm summers, with very little rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 84°, a January night drops to 11°, and about 28 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. Normal November highs come to 53°, and lows to 20°.

Winter 44°/13°Spring 63°/29°Summer 83°/48°Fall 65°/31°
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Sunrise 8:26 am · sunset 7:05 pm

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What stands out about Taos’s weather

Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.

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Among New Mexico’s coldest wintersJanuary nights average 11°, colder than 514 of 528 New Mexico towns.A dry climateJust 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year, less than 96% of U.S. towns.
A normal year

Where today sits in Taos’s year

Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.

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Winter
44° / 13°
10 days with an inch or more of snow
Spring
63° / 29°
Last frost around May 19
Summer
83° / 48°
23 days reach 90° in a normal year
Fall now
65° / 31°
First frost around Oct 3
Pastthe usual first frost (Oct 3). Last frost next spring: May 19
Best months to be outside
JunAugSep
Highs of 62–84° and lows of 40° or more
How much snow does Taos get?About 28 inches a winter.When is it wettest?July, with 2.0 inches.Is it warmer than it used to be?+1.5° vs. the 20th century.

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Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Taos itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Taos, NM (1 mi). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.