Ideal weather days in Denver
The best time to visit Denver for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 20 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Denver's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May, September and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Denver, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold145
- Too wet49
- Too hot34
- Too windy21
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Denver averaged 151 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September and October (up to 15 a month, 59 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April to May and October to November (up to 9 a month, 58 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 145 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 49 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in May, June and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Denver weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6 °C 43 °F | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 12 °C 53 °F | 4 | 2 | 10 | 3 of 28 |
| March | 15 °C 58 °F | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 of 31 |
| April | 20 °C 67 °F | 6 | 4 | 7 | 16 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 9 | 3 | 2 | 20 of 31 |
| June | 30 °C 86 °F | 9 | 1 | 3 | 14 of 30 |
| July | 33 °C 91 °F | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 89 °F | 7 | 1 | 5 | 13 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 5 | 1 | 14 | 25 of 30 |
| October | 26 °C 79 °F | 3 | 2 | 14 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 14 °C 57 °F | 5 | 2 | 13 | 8 of 30 |
| December | 12 °C 54 °F | 4 | 1 | 10 | 5 of 31 |
| Year | 64 | 21 | 94 | 151 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 148 warm, dry days
- 2024 145 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Denver for good weather?
The best time to visit Denver for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 20 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September and October (up to 15 a month, 59 a year). Counted from measured days at Denver Centennial Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Denver?
On average 64 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (9 rain days), the driest October (3).
How many sunny days does Denver get a year?
About 94 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in September (14).
How warm does Denver get?
The median daily high ranged from 6 °C (43 °F) in January to 33 °C (91 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Albuquerque540 km132 days
- Salt Lake City600 km107 days
- Billings730 km116 days
- Kansas City900 km135 days
More cities in the United States
- San Diego 317 days
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- Los Angeles 296 days
- Honolulu 224 days
- Orlando 203 days
- Tampa 194 days
- Miami 181 days
- Charlotte 177 days
- Sacramento 169 days
- Atlanta 168 days
- Phoenix 166 days
- San Francisco 162 days
- San Antonio 157 days
- Nashville 150 days
- New Orleans 144 days
- St. Louis 143 days
- Seattle 142 days
- Houston 141 days
- Austin 134 days
- Detroit 131 days
- Dallas 129 days
- New York 129 days
- Las Vegas 126 days
- Chicago 120 days
- Minneapolis 120 days
- Boise 117 days
- Boston 116 days
- Fairbanks 81 days
- Anchorage 55 days
- Juneau 45 days
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Source: Denver Centennial Airport weather station (72466693067), 23 km from the centre of Denver, 1789 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 88% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.