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Tulare Pool Season: the Year on One Bar
Last updated: July 15, 2026 · dates · water temp
This is the one-page view of Tulare's pool year: both model windows, the estimated water-temperature curve, and today's live position on the season bar. The detailed checklists live on the opening and closing guides; this page is the calendar you check between them.
Reading it takes ten seconds: 52 dots, one per week. Solid teal is Tulare's swim season; the hollow teal run before it (March 28 to April 18) is when to open; the hollow amber run after is when to close, with November 6 as the deadline; gray is the covered season. Today's marker shows where you stand in that cycle right now.
The Tulare pool calendar
Opening — target April 4
Target April 4; the practical window runs March 28–April 18, and the 7-day mean crosses the 61°F threshold around April 18. Cold-water starts are the cheap ones.
Closing — deadline November 6
The window opens October 27 once water leaves the algae zone; the model deadline is November 6, a week ahead of the December 13 freeze normal.
Estimated water temperature by month
Monthly averages of the site's water model run on Tulare's own normals — the shape of a typical year, not a forecast. The widget above shows where the current year actually sits.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46° | 49° | 54° | 58° | 65° | 72° | 78° | 80° | 77° | 70° | 59° | 49° |
Warmest water typically July–August (peaking near 81°F); heaters and covers shift any month up.
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Data: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals via Visalia (9.2 mi); live outlook by Open-Meteo. Attribution: sources · assumptions: methodology.