United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Golden.

September leads for comfortable weather in Golden: typically 24.6°C by day, 10.7°C at night, with 47 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.6°C

Typical low10.7°C

Rain in September47 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

87climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

77climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

83climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 6 against September’s 87 — days reach only 6.8°C, 17° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -5.5°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

107.6° / -4.9°

Feb

77.2° / -5.6°

Mar

2812° / -1.5°

Apr

4015.3° / 1.7°

May

6420.1° / 6.8°

Jun

8127.2° / 12.5°

Jul

7130.7° / 16.1°

Aug

7829° / 14.8°

Sep

8724.6° / 10.7°

Oct

5617.2° / 4°

Nov

3011.8° / -1.1°

Dec

66.8° / -5.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Golden — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.6°C	-4.9°C	18 mm	3.3	9 h 38	10	Good coverage
February	7.2°C	-5.6°C	22 mm	3.8	10 h 38	7	Good coverage
March	12°C	-1.5°C	42 mm	5.1	11 h 49	28	Good coverage
April	15.3°C	1.7°C	66 mm	6.7	13 h 12	40	Good coverage
May	20.1°C	6.8°C	71 mm	7.4	14 h 21	64	Good coverage
June	27.2°C	12.5°C	43 mm	6	14 h 58	81	Good coverage
July	30.7°C	16.1°C	45 mm	6.3	14 h 43	71	Good coverage
August	29°C	14.8°C	49 mm	6.5	13 h 44	78	Good coverage
September	24.6°C	10.7°C	47 mm	5.1	12 h 24	87	Good coverage
October	17.2°C	4°C	34 mm	4.6	11 h 05	56	Good coverage
November	11.8°C	-1.1°C	24 mm	3.9	9 h 56	30	Good coverage
December	6.8°C	-5.5°C	18 mm	3.4	9 h 22	6	Good coverage

Records at RALSTON RSVR, 1978–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.7°C21 Jan 2005	-25.6°C16 Jan 2024	22 mm26 Jan 1998	48 mm2019 · driest 1 mm in 2020	29
February	23.3°C11 Feb 2017	-27.2°C3 Feb 2011	47 mm3 Feb 2012	71 mm2012 · driest 1 mm in 2026	29
March	31.1°C22 Mar 2026	-21.1°C4 Mar 2019	45 mm19 Mar 2003	113 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 2012	29
April	28.9°C13 Apr 2025	-16.7°C10 Apr 2013	51 mm18 Apr 2009	144 mm1999 · driest 1 mm in 2002	30
May	34.4°C30 May 2000	-7.8°C7 May 1978	60 mm12 May 2023	170 mm2015 · driest 12 mm in 2006	30
June	38.9°C26 Jun 2012	0.0°C6 Jun 1998	43 mm5 Jun 2015	122 mm2015 · driest 5 mm in 2012	31
July	38.3°C17 Jul 2003	8.3°C31 Jul 2009	95 mm17 Jul 2000	125 mm2014 · driest 3 mm in 2008	31
August	37.2°C17 Aug 2002	5.6°C2 Aug 1978	54 mm5 Aug 1999	124 mm1999 · driest 6 mm in 2012	29
September	36.7°C3 Sep 2019	-2.2°C29 Sep 1999	267 mm13 Sep 2013	410 mm2013 · driest 1 mm in 2010	30
October	30.6°C3 Oct 2024	-17.2°C30 Oct 2019	37 mm10 Oct 2005	90 mm2009 · driest 2 mm in 2021	29
November	26.1°C3 Nov 2025	-22.8°C14 Nov 2014	25 mm26 Nov 2019	54 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2025	28
December	22.2°C23 Dec 2025	-26.1°C22 Dec 2022	40 mm29 Dec 2022	78 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2002	29

Typical days per month at RALSTON RSVR, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	25	<1	4
February	0	0	23	<1	4
March	<1	0	19	1	4
April	2	0	11	2	3
May	9	1	3	2	1
June	21	11	0	1	0
July	29	20	0	1	0
August	26	15	0	1	0
September	18	5	<1	1	<1
October	4	0	7	2	2
November	<1	0	18	<1	3
December	0	0	25	<1	4

How often, not how much — every day in RALSTON RSVR’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	<1%	11%	1%	7%	4.1–9.3°C
February	2%	14%	2%	7%	4.6–10.9°C
March	13%	18%	5%	16%	9.7–15.3°C
April	28%	21%	6%	21%	12.5–18.3°C
May	51%	27%	8%	31%	16.9–22.6°C
June	78%	21%	5%	20%	24.1–29.5°C
July	81%	22%	4%	25%	29.2–32.2°C
August	79%	21%	4%	20%	27.4–31.3°C
September	76%	17%	4%	14%	22.7–27.7°C
October	42%	14%	3%	9%	14.8–19.8°C
November	12%	13%	3%	8%	9.1–15.0°C
December	1%	11%	2%	6%	5.0–10.3°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1999Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 24-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 2008.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5423294
NOAA station: USC00056816 · RALSTON RSVR
Station distance: 8.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.76°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from RALSTON RSVR is what differs

Leyden→Leyden Junction→Plastic→Rocky→Apple Meadows→Eldorado Estates→

Or put two places side by side: Golden vs Leyden

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

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Best time to visit
Golden.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.