Weather by month
Denver
Colorado
Thin air, hard sun, and a habit of trading seasons back and forth inside a single afternoon.
The best time to come
September is the one people who live here defend hardest — warm afternoons, cool nights, and gold creeping down from the high country by the end of it. June and October bracket it nicely; May is beautiful and also the month hail dents half the cars in the metro.
The year at a glance
| Month | Highs / lows | Temperature range | Wet days | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47° / 18° | 5 | 6.4 in | |
| February | 48° / 19° | 5 | 7.6 in | |
| March | 56° / 27° | 5 | 8.8 in | |
| April | 63° / 34° | 4 | 6.2 in | |
| May | 72° / 43° | 5 | 1.4 in | |
| June ● | 84° / 53° | 4 | — | |
| July | 90° / 59° | 4 | — | |
| August | 88° / 57° | 4 | — | |
| September ● | 80° / 48° | 3 | 0.8 in | |
| October ● | 67° / 36° | 2 | 3.9 in | |
| November | 55° / 26° | 5 | 7.3 in | |
| December | 46° / 18° | 5 | 6.6 in |
Denver facts
- Sits at about 5,290 ft above sea level.
- 15.4 in of rain and melted snow in a typical year, with May the wettest month.
- 49.0 in of snow in a typical winter.
- July runs hottest (90° afternoons); January nights are the coldest (18°).