DENVER — Halloween in Colorado has seen the gambit of weather conditions historically, but this year looks calm and cool.
A dry air mass remains over Colorado, so expect plenty of sunshine and somewhat warmer temperatures on Tuesday.
The trick-or-treating forecast on Tuesday in Denver looks to be clear, but cool and breezy. Look for temperatures from 45 degrees to 38 degrees from 6 to 9 p.m.
DENVER FORECAST: Sunshine and slow warming trend for last day of October
The average high temperature in Denver on Halloween is 57.2 degrees. The coldest Halloween temp was 7 degrees in 2019.
Many Denver Halloweens drop below freezing, but there also have been plenty of warm years. Halloween 2016 topped out at a record-breaking 79 degrees.
Snow is often a threat on the Front Range as Halloween draws near, but it rarely hits the day of Halloween.
Denver has had snow accumulation on Halloween only 16 times in 139 years – 12% of the time. The last time there was measurable snow was in 2002.
There have been several years, though, where there was a snow mix, or just not enough snow to get a measurement, like 2018.
And when it does snow, it’s usually not much. Out of those 16 snowy Halloweens, only four of them saw more than 3 inches of snow.
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