At an airfield/5.8 mi away/6,873 ft/407 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Las Vegas
Las Vegas, New Mexico
City in San Miguel County, New MexicoFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Freeze Warning, freezing temperatures as low as 32 expected. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 25 possible. * WHERE...Central Highlands, Estancia Valley, and Northeast Highlands. * WHEN...For the Freeze Warning, from 3 AM to 9 AM MDT Friday. For the Freeze Watch, from late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
60°/37°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 34°·Fresh breeze 24 mph NNE
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Las Vegas until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Las Vegas is 44° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 24 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely Wednesday (59%). Rain is possible Tuesday (44%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
62%Humidity
29%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
44feels34
24mph
Today
Oct 15
6037
30mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
5634
21mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6229
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6836
19mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6742
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6645
44%
13mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6747
59%
12mph
44°
60°37°
56°34°
62°29°
68°36°
67°42°
66°45°
67°47°
As of 10:00 PM in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Las Vegas
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Santa Fe (NM), 48 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)10Good-
- Ozone34Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Las Vegas
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Las Vegas, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Las Vegas, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Las Vegas, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank4of 956
Gallinas Creek Near Montezuma08380500
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.5 mi away/6,880 ft/414 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-25 at RoweNM012
Beside a road/26.4 mi away/6,788 ft/322 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW8450DW8450
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.1 mi away/6,881 ft/415 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Las Vegas 0.3 SENM-SM-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/6,430 ft/36 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/4.8 mi away/6,451 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Las Vegas Municipal, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.8 mi from Las Vegas, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
41.0 F with a dew point of 31.0 F, 67 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
The wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 20 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Las Vegas
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tecolotecommunity, 10 mi
- Watrouscommunity, 19 mi
- San Josecommunity, 20 mi
- Sohamcommunity, 20 mi
- Riberacommunity, 20 mi
- North San Ysidrocommunity, 21 mi
- Pueblocommunity, 22 mi
- Senacommunity, 23 mi
- Villanuevacommunity, 24 mi
- East Pecoscommunity, 24 mi
- Pecosvillage, 26 mi
- Tecolotitocommunity, 26 mi