When to Open Your Pool

Somewhere between "the neighbors did it" and "Memorial Day" is your town's actual answer. Pick your state — each page has city-by-city windows from local NOAA temperature records.

The short version

Open when your town's daily average air temperature starts climbing through the low-to-mid 60s°F — water follows to swimmable within a couple of weeks. Earlier is safe (a circulating, chlorinated pool doesn't grow algae; a warm covered one does). Later costs real money: the classic green-swamp opening is almost always a pool that sat covered and warm too long.

For a single answer for your town, the pool season lookup takes a ZIP code, and every city page under pool seasons pairs the dates with a month-by-month warm-enough table.