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Weather extremes

How extreme does Breckenridge's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Breckenridge has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1971–present), from the Breckenridge station. Updated through March 2026 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Breckenridge has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
85°F Jul 27, 1978

The three most extreme on record

1 85°F Jul 27, 1978
2 84°F Jul 25, 1978
3 83°F Jul 14, 1978
❄️ Coldest night
-26°F Jan 2, 1978

The three most extreme on record

1 -26°F Jan 2, 1978
2 -19°F Feb 18, 1978
3 -16°F Dec 20, 1977
🌧️ Most rain in one day
27.00 in Oct 27, 1982

More rain in a single day than Breckenridge usually gets in the whole month of October (typical October total about 1.4 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 27.00 in Oct 27, 1982
2 3.17 in Jul 19, 2011
3 1.96 in Jun 6, 1984
Most snow in one day
20.9 in Dec 24, 1983

About 88% of a typical December's snow in a single day (Breckenridge averages roughly 24 in across the month).

The three most extreme on record

1 20.9 in Dec 24, 1983
2 19.0 in Apr 3, 1989
3 18.6 in May 21, 2022

In plain terms

Across the record, Breckenridge has reached as high as 85°F and as low as −26°F. A single day has delivered over 27 inches of rain or close to 21 inches of snow. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Copper Mountain, a weather station, about 11 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →