March is usually the snowiest month of the year for Denver
DENVER (KDVR) — March is often credited as the first month with spring weather, but in Denver, it is historically the snowiest month of the year.
The National Weather Service said March is known to bring the biggest snowfall events of the season to the region, with the month typically accounting for 20% of the annual snowfall.
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Being in the middle of the transition from winter to spring, March brings a variety of weather conditions. Here is what the average March weather looks like in Denver.
March is the snowiest month in Denver
The National Weather Service said March ranks as the snowiest month out of Denver’s nine-month snow period.
Denver typically sees six days with measurable precipitation in March, according to NWS.
From 1882 to 2022, March brought an average of 11.5 inches of snowfall to Denver. However, that number has gone down in recent years. From 1991 to 2020, Denver saw an average of 8.8 inches of snow in March.
Last March, Denver saw less snow than normal, with 5.1 inches accumulating over the month. The snowiest day last March was on the 25th when 2.2 inches fell in Denver.
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Denver’s snowiest March in history was in 2003 with 35.2 inches.
March brings 1st sunset after 6 p.m.
The first 6 p.m. sunset this year will come on March 9. The next day, clocks will spring an hour forward for daylight saving time despite a bill passed in the Colorado legislature and signed into law in 2022 to keep the state on Mountain Daylight Time permanently.
That day, the sun will be out for 11 hours and 41 minutes and is forecast to rise around 7:20 a.m. and set around 7:01 p.m.
On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, NWS says the sun will be out for 12 hours for the first time in 2024.
Does Denver normally warm up in March?
March is the fifth-coldest month of the year, according to NWS.
Between 1981 and 2010, NWS typically recorded 24 days with freezing temperatures.
The month starts with a normal high temperature of 50 degrees and a typical low temperature of 22 degrees. By the end of March, high temperatures normally sit at 58 degrees with lows at an average of 30 degrees.
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The coldest March recorded in Denver was in 1912 with an average temperature of 26.4 degrees. Meanwhile, the warmest March in Denver on record was in 1910, with an average of 50.4 degrees.
Historically, Denver typically gets 8.8 inches of snow in March with high temperatures in the 50s and low temperatures in the 30s.
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