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

What is the weather like in Pueblo each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; December the coldest, with normal lows of 16°F. The most precipitation falls in August (2.11 in), the least in January (0.29 in).

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

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

When is the best weather to visit Pueblo?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (4).

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 Pueblo?

In Pueblo, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 30 in half of years and after May 12 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 9 in half of years and before September 27 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

April 301 year in 10 after May 12; 9 in 10 after April 18

First autumn frost, half of years before

October 91 year in 10 before September 27; 9 in 10 before October 21

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 161 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 181 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 19 in half of springs and before October 18 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pueblo in zone 6a across its 2 ZIP code areas (6a in 81001, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Pueblo's NOAA station is in zone 5b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −10°F (30 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.

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

What hardiness zone is each Pueblo ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Pueblo's 2 ZIP code areas are all in zone 6a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Pueblo?

In a normal year in Pueblo, 72 days a year reach 90°F (12 of them 100°F or more), 165 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 69 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

72a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

12a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

165a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

14high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

69a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

9a normal year

The highest temperature in Pueblo's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1888) is 109°F, on July 13, 2003; the lowest is −31°F, on February 1, 1951.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 1957, with 23.09 in; the snowiest season is 1989–90, with 69.6 inches.

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

The summer (June-August) dew point averages 49°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 53°F; the driest air comes in December (14°F). April is the windiest month (9.4 mph on average), and June has the most clear or nearly clear hours (88%).

How sunny is Pueblo?

Over a year 82% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Pueblo, 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 Pueblo need?

A normal year in Pueblo brings 5,334 heating degree days, 1% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,078 cooling degree days, 19% more 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 3,475 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Pueblo been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 54.3°F, 1.1°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 53.2°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 74 complete years from 1943 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 3.9°F per century (+0.22°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Pueblo share this climate record?

2 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.

• Vineland, CO332 people · 4 mi SE
• Avondale, CO298 people · 9 mi SE

What do Pueblo's other NOAA stations record?

One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Pueblo. This page uses Pueblo Memorial Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:

Nearby and next

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• Colorado climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Weather Office Pueblo, CO1 miles from this station, 53.0°F a year
• Tacony (13 mi SE), CO24 miles from this station, 52.5°F a year
• Ellicott, CO32 miles from this station, 50.7°F a year
• Rye, CO35 miles from this station, 50.0°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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