Denver, CO Weather Forecast
Denver County, Colorado
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Denver, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Denver, CO at a glance
Denver is home to about 716,577 people in Denver County, across 153 square miles. It is the largest of 105 places in Colorado with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Glendale, 5 miles away.
- County
- Denver County
- Population
- 716,577 2023 est.
- Land area
- 153 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,681
- Forecast point
- 39.7619°N, 104.8811°W
How well can the network see Denver?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFTG (Denver, CO), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 980 ft above Denver. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Denver show up clearly. Denver is closer to its radar than 88% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KBKF (Buckley SFB). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Denver
- Glendale, CO5 mi
- Cherry Hills Village, CO9 mi
- Aurora, CO9 mi
- Commerce City, CO10 mi
- Edgewater, CO10 mi
- Englewood, CO10 mi
- Federal Heights, CO10 mi
- Greenwood Village, CO10 mi
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