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Colorado · 729,019 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 12:05

Air: Good

15°

Clear sky

Feels like 15°C

Wind

5 km/h

Gusts

5 km/h

Humidity

32 %

Pressure

1019 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 07:25 Set 18:01 Day 10 h 36 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Mainly clear

19°15°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ ENE 5 km/h

Humidity 16 %

Evening

Mainly clear

14°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ NNE 10 km/h

Gusts 18 km/h

Humidity 34 %

12:00

15°

ENE 5

15:00

19°

ENE 5

Denver forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +6.0° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Denver climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −8 °C in January.

Day and night differ most in June: 27 °C in the afternoon against 11 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 530 mm of rain — less than 85% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From 14 h 59 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 21 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	5 °C	−8 °C	24 mm
Feb	6 °C	−7 °C	26 mm
Mar	12 °C	−3 °C	50 mm
Apr	15 °C	1 °C	72 mm
May	21 °C	6 °C	85 mm
Jun	27 °C	11 °C	55 mm
Jul	30 °C	15 °C	44 mm
Aug	29 °C	14 °C	42 mm
Sep	25 °C	10 °C	38 mm
Oct	18 °C	3 °C	41 mm
Nov	10 °C	−3 °C	32 mm
Dec	5 °C	−8 °C	23 mm
Whole year	17 °C	3 °C	530 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.74° N, 104.98° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Denver: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.54µg/m³

PM104µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Denver

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Denver, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Denver

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 20:27 Set 11:44

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Denver); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Denver

Curious about the weather in Denver on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Denver weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Denver, Colorado: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 4 °C to 19 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

Aurora 13 km 4°

Colorado Springs 102 km 4°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations