Pool season · Maryland
Silver Spring Pool Season: the Year on One Bar
Last updated: July 15, 2026 · dates · water temp
One bar, one year, one Silver Spring 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.
Each dot on the bar is one week of Silver Spring's typical year, colored by what the model says that week is for: gray weeks are off-season, hollow teal marks the opening window (April 15–May 6), solid teal is swim season, and hollow amber is the closing window ending October 16. The black marker is today — its position against the colors is the entire executive summary.
The Silver Spring pool calendar
Opening — target April 22
Target April 22; the practical window runs April 15–May 6, and the 7-day mean crosses the 61°F threshold around May 6. Cold-water starts are the cheap ones.
Closing — deadline October 16
The window opens October 6 once water leaves the algae zone; the model deadline is October 16, a week ahead of the November 1 freeze normal.
Estimated water temperature by month
This is Silver Spring's typical-year water curve: the same EWMA model as the live widget, run on the 1991–2020 normals instead of this week's weather.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35° | 35° | 40° | 50° | 60° | 69° | 76° | 77° | 73° | 63° | 51° | 42° |
The curve peaks near 77°F — comfortable-water months here usually involve a heater or a solar cover.
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Data: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals via Beltsville (5.2 mi); live outlook by Open-Meteo. Attribution: sources · assumptions: methodology.