United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Vail.

August leads for comfortable weather in Vail: typically 23.7°C by day, 4.9°C at night, with 46 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high23.7°C

Typical low4.9°C

Rain in August46 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

74climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

38climate match

Outdoors

June

June · September · August

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 74 — days reach only -2°C, 26° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -14°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

5-2° / -14°

Feb

50.6° / -12.4°

Mar

55.7° / -8.4°

Apr

109.8° / -4.5°

May

3916° / -0.6°

Jun

6822.1° / 2.1°

Jul

7225.2° / 5.4°

Aug

7423.7° / 4.9°

Sep

5419.4° / 1.1°

Oct

2412.6° / -3.8°

Nov

53.3° / -9.5°

Dec

5-2.2° / -13.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Vail — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-2°C	-14°C	55 mm	11	9 h 39	5	Strong coverage
February	0.6°C	-12.4°C	55 mm	9.8	10 h 38	5	Strong coverage
March	5.7°C	-8.4°C	47 mm	8.6	11 h 49	5	Strong coverage
April	9.8°C	-4.5°C	57 mm	8.3	13 h 11	10	Strong coverage
May	16°C	-0.6°C	51 mm	7.7	14 h 20	39	Strong coverage
June	22.1°C	2.1°C	34 mm	5.9	14 h 57	68	Strong coverage
July	25.2°C	5.4°C	45 mm	8.5	14 h 43	72	Strong coverage
August	23.7°C	4.9°C	46 mm	9.3	13 h 43	74	Strong coverage
September	19.4°C	1.1°C	51 mm	7.4	12 h 24	54	Strong coverage
October	12.6°C	-3.8°C	46 mm	6.4	11 h 05	24	Strong coverage
November	3.3°C	-9.5°C	47 mm	8.1	9 h 56	5	Strong coverage
December	-2.2°C	-13.7°C	44 mm	9.1	9 h 23	5	Strong coverage

Records at VAIL, 1985–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	10.6°C31 Jan 1986	-29.4°C12 Jan 1989	46 mm16 Jan 2003	106 mm1996 · driest 15 mm in 2015	39
February	12.8°C25 Feb 1989	-35.6°C2 Feb 1985	37 mm21 Feb 1996	119 mm1993 · driest 8 mm in 1989	40
March	22.2°C26 Mar 2026	-26.7°C2 Mar 2002	31 mm28 Mar 1993	87 mm2016 · driest 12 mm in 1987	40
April	23.3°C21 Apr 1989	-18.3°C6 Apr 2009	68 mm11 Apr 2001	108 mm2001 · driest 16 mm in 1987	41
May	27.8°C31 May 2002	-10.0°C11 May 1999	37 mm21 May 2019	107 mm1995 · driest 6 mm in 1988	40
June	32.8°C30 Jun 1990	-6.7°C26 Jun 1985	38 mm2 Jun 1990	77 mm2005 · driest 4 mm in 2013	41
July	35.0°C7 Jul 1989	-5.6°C1 Jul 2020	26 mm28 Jul 1987	100 mm2012 · driest 11 mm in 2005	40
August	33.3°C18 Aug 1986	-5.6°C27 Aug 1992	31 mm17 Aug 2003	123 mm2003 · driest 10 mm in 1996	41
September	30.0°C16 Sep 1990	-10.0°C30 Sep 1985	46 mm28 Sep 2005	101 mm2013 · driest 10 mm in 2018	41
October	25.6°C2 Oct 1989	-21.1°C31 Oct 2019	38 mm19 Oct 2005	102 mm2002 · driest 3 mm in 2003	41
November	18.9°C2 Nov 1988	-26.7°C30 Nov 2006	23 mm5 Nov 2018	90 mm2001 · driest 9 mm in 2012	38
December	10.6°C4 Dec 1987	-30.0°C11 Dec 1986	31 mm7 Dec 2001	94 mm2008 · driest 4 mm in 1991	39

Typical days per month at VAIL, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	1	12
February	0	0	27	1	11
March	0	0	30	1	9
April	0	0	27	2	7
May	<1	0	20	1	2
June	8	0	7	1	<1
July	19	1	<1	1	0
August	12	<1	<1	1	0
September	2	0	12	2	<1
October	0	0	26	1	3
November	0	0	28	1	8
December	0	0	30	<1	10

How often, not how much — every day in VAIL’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	0%	32%	3%	37%	-3.5–0.3°C
February	0%	34%	4%	43%	-1.1–3.9°C
March	<1%	29%	3%	32%	3.7–8.3°C
April	2%	27%	5%	28%	7.2–13.2°C
May	27%	25%	4%	27%	14.0–18.5°C
June	68%	20%	4%	20%	20.4–24.3°C
July	71%	28%	5%	34%	23.5–27.6°C
August	67%	30%	4%	37%	22.2–26.1°C
September	48%	25%	4%	28%	18.0–21.9°C
October	10%	20%	4%	17%	10.6–17.5°C
November	0%	27%	4%	29%	0.8–6.7°C
December	0%	29%	3%	34%	-3.1–0.8°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.

1986Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 33-year average. Warmest: 2017. Coolest: 1997.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5442727
NOAA station: USC00058575 · VAIL
Station distance: 1.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.64°, 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.

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