Colorado Springs, Colorado climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Colorado Springs each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 87°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 19°F. The most precipitation falls in July (3.12 in), the least in December (0.23 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

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• Apr
• May
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• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

When is the best weather to visit Colorado Springs?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, August and September. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (7).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in Colorado Springs?

In Colorado Springs, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after May 3 in half of years and after May 15 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 8 in half of years and before September 26 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

May 31 year in 10 after May 15; 9 in 10 after April 22

First autumn frost, half of years before

October 81 year in 10 before September 26; 9 in 10 before October 19

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 158 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 176 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 24 in half of springs and before October 16 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Colorado Springs in zones 5b to 6a across its 23 ZIP code areas (6a in 80916, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Colorado Springs's NOAA station is in zone 6a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −7°F (30 complete years).

Frost dates for every NOAA station in Colorado · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each Colorado Springs ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Colorado Springs's 23 ZIP code areas run from zone 5b to 6a: 5 in 5b and 18 in 6a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Colorado Springs?

In a normal year in Colorado Springs, 23 days a year reach 90°F, 160 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 87 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

23a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

fewer than 1a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

160a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

21high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

87a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

11a normal year

The highest temperature in Colorado Springs's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1894) is 101°F, on June 26, 2012; the lowest is −27°F, on February 1, 1951.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 1999, with 27.58 in; the snowiest season is 1956–57, with 89.4 inches.

How humid and windy is Colorado Springs, and how clear are its skies?

The summer (June-August) dew point averages 47°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 51°F; the driest air comes in December (12°F). March is the windiest month (11.2 mph on average), and June has the most clear or nearly clear hours (79%).

How sunny is Colorado Springs?

Over a year 82% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Colorado Springs, 5.0 kWh per square metre a day. September is the sunniest month (87%) and February the cloudiest (78%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 99th (with 11 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Colorado Springs need?

A normal year in Colorado Springs brings 5,889 heating degree days, 10% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 608 cooling degree days, 33% fewer than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 2,730 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Colorado Springs been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 51.5°F, 1.1°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 50.4°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 80 complete years from 1943 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 3.3°F per century (+0.18°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Colorado Springs share this climate record?

6 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Security-Widefield, CO38,659 people · 4 mi S
• Fountain, CO29,457 people · 8 mi S
• Cimarron Hills, CO18,808 people · 3 mi N
• Fort Carson, CO18,447 people · 9 mi S
• Stratmoor, CO6,396 people · 5 mi SW
• Rock Creek Park, CO126 people · 11 mi SW

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• Ellicott, CO16 miles from this station, 50.7°F a year
• Black Forest, CO16 miles from this station, 49.2°F a year
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