Denver skipped spring and jumped straight into summer last month, breaking more than a dozen heat records along the way, according to the National Weather Service.
A combination of record daily highs and lows, paired with unseasonably warm temperatures that didn’t quite take the top spot, made last month Denver’s hottest March since the weather service began collecting temperature data in 1872.
Denver’s average March temperature this year — a combination of all the city’s daily highs and lows throughout the month — was a record-breaking 51.6 degrees, . That’s nearly 10 degrees hotter than Denver’s usual March average of 41.7 degrees, according to the weather service.
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The city also broke six daily heat records in March and smashed the decades-old monthly record four times, according to .
Records included highs of:
- 85 degrees on March 19, breaking the 81-degree daily record set in 1907 and the 84-degree monthly record set in 1971.
- 85 degrees on March 20, breaking the 80-degree daily record set in 1907 and tying the new monthly record set the day before.
- 86 degrees on March 21, breaking the 78-degree record set in 1995 and setting a new March heat record, again.
- 81 degrees on March 24, breaking the 76-degree record set in 1896.
- 87 degrees on March 25, breaking the 75-degree record set in 2025 and the monthly heat record for a fourth time.
- 79 degrees on March 29, .
Denver's overnight lows in March averaged out to 35.7 degrees, another record, according to the weather service. The city's normal average is 27.5 degrees.
Denver also set two daily records for the warmest low temperature: 54 degrees on March 25 and 51 degrees on March 30, according to weather service data.
