Warm jackets are often an unfortunate-but-necessary staple of southern Colorado Halloween costumes, as the weather tends to get pretty chilly on All Hallows’ Eve.

But Pueblo celebrants may be able to get away with keeping their Halloween costumes at least partly uncovered by jackets, hats and other cold-weather clothing this year, as the National Weather Service in Pueblo is currently forecasting a high of about 56 degrees during the day, and temperatures in the 50s and 40s during peak trick-or-treat hours.

Here’s what to know about the Halloween forecast in Pueblo this year.

Pueblo expected to be cool, dry on Halloween

According to the National Weather Service, Pueblo is expected to be partly sunny on Friday, with a high near 57 degrees during the day and a low around 26 degrees on Friday night.

During peak trick-or-treat hours, the Oct. 29 forecast calls for a temperature of about 56 degrees at 4 p.m., which will continue to get colder throughout the evening.

By 5 p.m., when many families are setting off on their door-to-door hunts for candy, the weather is expected to drop to about 54 degrees, then to about 51 degrees by 6 p.m.

The hourly forecast calls for temperatures of about 47 degrees at 7 p.m., 44 degrees at 8 p.m., and 41 degrees at 9 p.m.

For adults taking advantage of Halloween falling on a Friday this year and planning to stay out late, things get slowly colder from there: The forecast calls for temperatures of about 39 degrees at 10 p.m., 37 degrees at 11 p.m., 36 degrees at midnight, and 34 degrees at 1 a.m.

What is Pueblo’s weather typically like on Halloween?

This year’s Halloween forecast calls for conditions slightly colder than 2024, when the Pueblo area saw a high temperature of 61 degrees and a low of 22 degrees.

Both 2024 and 2025, if current forecasts hold, fall along the lines of what Pueblo typically sees on the late-October holiday.

According to the NWS, Pueblo normally sees a high of about 63 degrees and a low of 30 degrees on Halloween, with an overall average temperature of about 46.5 degrees.

Pueblo also commonly avoids snow on Halloween, as the area averages just 0.1 inches of snowfall on the holiday.

What were the hottest, coldest and snowiest Halloweens in Pueblo history?

Since 1888, the highest temperature recorded in Pueblo on an Oct. 31 occurred in 2016, when the mercury hit a daily high of 84 degrees, according to the NWS.

The coldest temperature recorded in Pueblo on a Halloween took place just six years ago in 2019, when Pueblo saw a bone-chilling low of -5 degrees.

The most snowfall Pueblo has seen on a Halloween was 12.6 inches, which happened in 1972, according to NWS data.

I walked 20,000 steps with both the Apple Watch 11 and Google Pixel Watch 4 strapped to my wrist, while manually counting my steps as I went, using a trusty clicker counter. I split these steps up over several walks, and when I got home I downloaded all of the data to see which watch was more accurate. Read on to find out what happened.

I walked 20,000 steps with the Apple Watch 11 vs Google Pixel Watch 4 — here’s which watch came out on top

Both watches count your steps by using an internal accelerometer, which measures the swing of your arm. Each swing counts for two steps. It doesn’t matter whether you wear your watch on your dominant or non-dominant hand, or whether you’re walking with your hands in your pockets, or holding something, the accelerometer should still measure your body’s movement.

If you own an Apple Watch, you’ll also know that Apple doesn’t include step count data in its workout summaries. You can see your overall steps for the entire day, but not how many steps you took on a particular walk (probably because steps aren’t actually that useful a metric, but annoying for me when writing these articles.) I downloaded the Pedometer+ app to my watch in order to get this data.

Here are the results from each walk, plus my total:

As you can see from the results, the winner is clear — the Google Pixel Watch 4 was far more accurate at counting my steps, overcounting by 237 steps. The Apple Watch 11, on the other hand, missed 422 steps. This isn’t to say Apple's wearable ius useless, however. The average person takes 2,000 steps per mile, so missing a couple of hundred steps over the course of 20,000 isn’t too big a deal. That said, the Google Pixel Watch 4 was ever so slightly closer to my manual recording so if accuracy is what you're after, pick up the Pixel Watch.

As mentioned above, both watches are designed to do a lot more than just count your steps. Both watches are packed with sensors and trackers to help you live a healthier life, with HRM, ECG, SpO2 and Skin Temperature sensors on board. Both are similarly priced, the Apple Watch 11 starting at $399 and the Google Pixel Watch 4 starting at $349, and both have AI health coaches on board.

Both watches are excellent from a health tracking perspective, and we’ll be doing more comparisons soon, but rest assured, if you are someone who looks at your daily steps, both do so pretty perfectly, so unlike me, you don’t need to keep count.