Las Cruces, NM Pollen Count

What is the Las Cruces pollen count today?

The Las Cruces pollen count today is 22 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.

Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today Las Cruces: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.

Las Cruces allergies today

Las Cruces allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 22 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about Las Cruces allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for Las Cruces.

Allergies in Las Cruces follow the New Mexico calendar set out below — the chapters, the plants behind them, and the 5-day forecast on this page show whether today is typical for the season or an exception to it. If you are checking allergies today in Las Cruces before heading outdoors, the split at the top of this page is the part to read: it shows which pollen is doing the work today, not just how high the total sits.

Read the five-day table on this page as the Las Cruces allergy forecast: today reads 22 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether Las Cruces allergies are set to ease or build across the week — the days to plan outdoor time around are the ones where the index steps down, not just today.

In practice, the allergy count Las Cruces today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.

The Las Cruces allergy count today is 22 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.

Pollen count today Las Cruces: the 5-day forecast

Pollen Atlas forecasts Las Cruces’s pollen count to peak on Saturday at 22 (Low) over the next 5 days.

Pollen by type in Las Cruces

• Las Cruces tree pollen count
• Las Cruces grass pollen count
• Las Cruces ragweed pollen count

What is driving Las Cruces’s pollen today

The shape of today’s 22 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 26 (Low on its own scale) — about 54% of the four category readings added together, 7 points clear of the next category, tree pollen at 19. A weed-led total is the classic late-year shape: tree and grass pollen have usually receded, leaving weed pollen — and on damp days mold — to make up most of what the index records. Weed pollen leading in November runs against the usual calendar — the New Mexico weed chapter runs August to October — so today’s lead is the model outranking the pattern, and this page reports the modelled reading first.

Plant-level detail is not in today’s feed for Las Cruces, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The New Mexico guide’s account of New Mexico names juniper and elm in spring, and chenopod and ragweed-family weeds after the monsoon — the pollens behind readings of this shape in this state — and the split shows how much of today’s total each category is actually carrying.

Across the five-day window the Total Pollen Index runs from 22 to 22, never changing band. Today’s 22 sits level with the window’s average of 22 — a steady window, in which one day reads much like the next.

Plants affecting Las Cruces now

Detailed plant-by-plant readings for Las Cruces were not returned in today\u2019s source data, so this section summarises the pollen types the index above is built from instead of listing individual plants.

Tree pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 19 (Low).

Grass pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 3 (Low).

Weed pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 26 (Low).

In the Mountain West pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are spring trees and late-spring grasses in a compressed warm-season window — named here as regional context only, not as today\u2019s measurements.

Plant detail returns here automatically on any day the source data includes it.

Every pollen type, with photos and seasons: the pollen directory.

Las Cruces pollen through the year

The Las Cruces pollen year runs in chapters, set by the Mountain West pattern and the New Mexico calendar. Trees come first: juniper can arrive in late winter, and the main tree wave builds in spring — as late as April at Denver’s altitude. Grasses take the middle of the year: grasses follow in a compressed early-summer run. Weeds close it out: ragweed and sagebrush-family weeds close the year from late summer.

The New Mexico allergy season guide names juniper and elm in spring, and chenopod and ragweed-family weeds after the monsoon. New Mexico’s season runs in two acts with a monsoon intermission from around early July, and its spring winds are the delivery system — sustained, dry and gusty enough to make a windy afternoon and a still morning feel like two different seasons. Albuquerque sits a mile above sea level, and Santa Fe — some two thousand feet higher still — runs the same script a step later and cooler.

November falls between the main chapters of the New Mexico pollen year — the tail of one and the approach of the next — so the calendar alone explains little today, and the modelled split above carries the story. Between them, the three chapters cover 9 months of the New Mexico year, February to October — leaving a quiet gap of roughly 3 months in the depth of the off-season. The full calendar is set out in the New Mexico allergy season guide.

How to read this index

Pollen Atlas reports the Las Cruces pollen count on a Total Pollen Index from 0 to 100, built from separate tree, grass and weed readings. The total is a summary, not an average of the three: a single strong category can lift it, and three quiet categories can hold it down whatever the month. Index values are a modelled pollen risk index computed by Pollen Atlas from open weather, vegetation and phenology data, calibrated against CDC/NAB season data, with plant detail by the Google Pollen API. The index is a modelled 0–100 scale, not a measured count, and figures update through the day, so a morning and an evening visit to this page can legitimately show different numbers.

Las Cruces in today’s national picture

At 22 (Low), Las Cruces ranks joint 86589th of the 170524 cities Pollen Atlas tracks today — in the middle of the national table. The highest reading in the country today is Beja, Portugal at 52, and the lowest is Villerose, Italy at 5. The whole table spans 47 points today — a wide-open day, when the top and bottom of the table are effectively in different seasons.

Around Las Cruces: San Ysidro, NM (2 miles away) reads 20 (Low); Fairacres, NM (3 miles away) reads 22 (Low); Mesilla, NM (4 miles away) reads 22 (Low). Las Cruces reads 2 points higher than its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across New Mexico’s 517 tracked cities, today runs from 5 in Las Vegas to 28 in Dexter.

Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one Las Cruces resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every season, allergists in Las Cruces, NM can test whether tree, grass, weed or mold is the category that matters for you — the four readings at the top of this page are the starting point for that conversation.

Las Cruces in its local area

Las Cruces is a city in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Its population is 112,612 (ACS 2023).

Across New Mexico’s 517 tracked cities, Las Cruces ranks joint 13th today.

Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the Las Cruces, NM pollen count is refreshed each morning.

Nearby cities

• San Ysidro pollen count (2 miles away)
• Fairacres pollen count (3 miles away)
• Mesilla pollen count (4 miles away)
• University Park pollen count (4 miles away)
• Tortugas pollen count (4 miles away)
• Doña Ana pollen count (5 miles away)

From Pollen Atlas News

• New Mexico allergy season
• Ragweed season