Central Park against normal, October 2026
October 2026 at Central Park ran 11.3°F above normal. Normal here is the 1991-2020 average for that same month, which is the standard climate baseline — so this is a comparison with the recent past, not with the start of the record.
Across the whole series, October has averaged +0.8°F against that baseline, over 79 years. The warmest was +11.3 (2026) and the coldest -11.9 (1969). A single month is weather; the reason to post one every month is that the band they fall in has moved — which is what the 12-month average on the chart is there to show.
The station is the caveat. One weather station stands for the whole metro: Denver-Central Park (NOAA USW00023062), on the site of the old Stapleton airport, whose record starts in 1948. The airport moved out in 1995 and a neighbourhood was built around the instruments, so some of the drift in this line is the site and not the climate. That is why the anomaly is measured against a fixed 1991-2020 baseline rather than against the early record.
Source: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network daily records for the Denver-Central Park station, on the old Stapleton airfield (USW00023062), via RCC-ACIS, aggregated to monthly means and differenced against the 1991-2020 normal for each calendar month. Auto-generated each build.