Pool season · Colorado
Colorado Springs Pool Season: the Year on One Bar
Last updated: July 15, 2026 · dates · water temp
One bar, one year, one Colorado Springs pool. The season bar below draws everything the model knows — opening window, prime season, closing window — against today's date, with the working details one click away on the opening and closing pages.
Reading it takes ten seconds: 52 dots, one per week. Solid teal is Colorado Springs's swim season; the hollow teal run before it (May 6 to May 27) is when to open; the hollow amber run after is when to close, with October 1 as the deadline; gray is the covered season. Today's marker shows where you stand in that cycle right now.
The Colorado Springs pool calendar
Opening — target May 13
Target May 13; the practical window runs May 6–May 27, and the 7-day mean crosses the 61°F threshold around May 27. Cold-water starts are the cheap ones.
Closing — deadline October 1
The window opens September 21 once water leaves the algae zone; the model deadline is October 1, a week ahead of the October 8 freeze normal.
Estimated water temperature by month
Monthly averages of the site's water model run on Colorado Springs'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31° | 32° | 37° | 45° | 52° | 63° | 71° | 72° | 67° | 57° | 45° | 34° |
The curve peaks near 72°F — comfortable-water months here usually involve a heater or a solar cover.
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Data: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals via Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (5.5 mi); live outlook by Open-Meteo. Attribution: sources · assumptions: methodology.