Colorado Springs climate

Name: Colorado Springs
Address: US

Colorado Springs is warmest in July, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average -8.4 °C. July is the wettest month (70 mm) and December the driest (13 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Colorado Springs averages 480 mm of rain, 98 days above 25 °C and 159 days below freezing.

United States · 1,832 m elevation · population 456,568 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 29 °C
Coldest month December -8.4 °C
Driest month December 13 mm
Wettest month July 70 mm
Least cloud September 35 % cloud
Hottest on record June 37 °C
Coldest on record December -32 °C

What to expectColorado Springs through the year

Colorado Springs has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 5.3 °C in December to 29 °C in July, a swing of 25 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 98 days a year reach 25 °C, 33 of them reach 30 °C, 159 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 70 mm against 13 mm in December — 5.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	6.1 °C	14 mm	39 %
February	7.2 °C	17 mm	43 %
March	11.9 °C	42 mm	45 %
April	15.6 °C	61 mm	49 %
May	20.9 °C	68 mm	51 %
June	27.0 °C	50 mm	41 %
July	29.2 °C	70 mm	44 %
August	27.8 °C	59 mm	43 %
September	24.7 °C	34 mm	35 %
October	18.0 °C	31 mm	35 %
November	10.4 °C	21 mm	38 %
December	5.3 °C	13 mm	38 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	6.1 °C	-8.1 °C	-2.5 °C	18.1 °C	-30.5 °C	0	0	30
February	7.2 °C	-7.4 °C	-1.2 °C	21.3 °C	-29.1 °C	0	0	28
March	11.9 °C	-3.8 °C	3.1 °C	25.7 °C	-23.4 °C	0	0	25
April	15.6 °C	-0.3 °C	7.1 °C	28.6 °C	-20.1 °C	0	0	14
May	20.9 °C	5.6 °C	13.1 °C	32.9 °C	-9.9 °C	7	1	2
June	27.0 °C	11.0 °C	19.2 °C	36.9 °C	1.4 °C	21	9	0
July	29.2 °C	14.2 °C	22.0 °C	36.2 °C	5.9 °C	27	14	0
August	27.8 °C	13.4 °C	20.6 °C	35.4 °C	4.2 °C	25	7	0
September	24.7 °C	9.5 °C	16.8 °C	35.0 °C	-3.6 °C	15	2	0
October	18.0 °C	2.8 °C	9.5 °C	29.4 °C	-23.5 °C	3	0	6
November	10.4 °C	-3.7 °C	2.0 °C	24.4 °C	-26.6 °C	0	0	23
December	5.3 °C	-8.4 °C	-3.0 °C	17.4 °C	-31.9 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	14 mm	4	9.8 h/day	39 %	58 %	14 km/h
February	17 mm	4	11 h/day	43 %	57 %	15 km/h
March	42 mm	7	12 h/day	45 %	56 %	17 km/h
April	61 mm	9	13 h/day	49 %	56 %	18 km/h
May	68 mm	12	14 h/day	51 %	57 %	18 km/h
June	50 mm	10	15 h/day	41 %	51 %	17 km/h
July	70 mm	11	15 h/day	44 %	54 %	15 km/h
August	59 mm	11	14 h/day	43 %	58 %	14 km/h
September	34 mm	6	12 h/day	35 %	54 %	16 km/h
October	31 mm	5	11 h/day	35 %	55 %	16 km/h
November	21 mm	5	10 h/day	38 %	58 %	14 km/h
December	13 mm	4	9.5 h/day	38 %	59 %	14 km/h

How Colorado Springs compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Colorado Springs	29 °C	-8.4 °C	480 mm	98
Lakewood · United States	30 °C	-8.3 °C	505 mm	102
Aurora · United States	31 °C	-7.4 °C	394 mm	115
Denver · United States	30 °C	-8.7 °C	494 mm	107
Fort Collins · United States	30 °C	-7.7 °C	474 mm	99
Albuquerque · United States	33 °C	-2.6 °C	203 mm	156

Where Colorado Springs ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in North America in September	14thof 50	92/100
The driest places in North America in January	48thof 50	14 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Colorado Springs.

QuestionsCommon questions about Colorado Springs’s climate

When is the best time to visit Colorado Springs?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Colorado Springs get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 33 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -8.4 °C in December, the coldest month. A normal year has 159 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Colorado Springs?

July, averaging 70 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is December with 13 mm. The year as a whole averages 480 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Colorado Springs rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.