Pool season · New York
Queens Pool Season: the Year on One Bar
Last updated: July 15, 2026 · dates · water temp
Queens's whole pool calendar, condensed: when the water warms, when it cools, and where today falls between those edges. Use the opening guide and closing guide for the step-by-step work; keep this page for the dates.
Reading it takes ten seconds: 52 dots, one per week. Solid teal is Queens's swim season; the hollow teal run before it (April 16 to May 7) is when to open; the hollow amber run after is when to close, with October 22 as the deadline; gray is the covered season. Today's marker shows where you stand in that cycle right now.
The Queens pool calendar
Opening — target April 23
Target April 23; the practical window runs April 16–May 7, and the 7-day mean crosses the 61°F threshold around May 7. Cold-water starts are the cheap ones.
Closing — deadline October 22
Hold the cover until October 12, then winterize by October 22, a week ahead of the November 25 freeze normal. Late and cold beats early and warm.
Estimated water temperature by month
Monthly averages of the site's water model run on Queens'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36° | 35° | 40° | 49° | 59° | 69° | 77° | 79° | 75° | 65° | 54° | 44° |
Warmest water typically August–August (peaking near 79°F); heaters and covers shift any month up.
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Data: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals via New York Laguardia Airport (4.8 mi); live outlook by Open-Meteo. Attribution: sources · assumptions: methodology.