Spot report
🇺🇸Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
updated 03:00 local · open-meteo
🏊 Open-water swim· foothills reservoir · base: Fort Collins
Host of the Horsetooth Swims since 1999, the Rocky Mountain region's established open-water race (10K, 2.4 and 1.2 miles) at 5,430 ft.
Heads up · Altitude; 62-70F water; boat traffic outside race days
Wind
13 km/h
gusts 17 · from E
Water
flat
inland — lakes and rivers
Road
wet
wet — 0.5 mm, ease off
Daylight
07:10 → 18:21
8 °C air · 0.5 mm · UV 0
What's rideable right now
Wind
Water
Mountain
River
⛵
Sailing
RIDEABLE13 km/h — easy sailing
Best windows this week
- Thu 7am–6pmFIRING
35 km/h — a proper breeze · 12 h
- Sun 12pm–6pmFIRING
27 km/h — a proper breeze · 7 h
- Fri 10am–6pmRIDEABLE
15 km/h — easy sailing · 9 h
This week
Today
14 km/h
5–10 °C · 12 mm
🛶Kayak & canoe
Thu
36 km/h
4–9 °C · 3 mm
⛵Sailing
Fri
15 km/h
3–16 °C
🛶Kayak & canoe
Sat
10 km/h
6–21 °C
🏄SUP
Sun
27 km/h
9–20 °C
⛵Sailing
Mon
11 km/h
6–17 °C
🛶Kayak & canoe
Tue
10 km/h
8–22 °C
🏄SUP
bars: daily max wind · best sport each day
Pack list
- No water temp inland → judge by air — 8 °C. Lakes run colder than they look.
- 13 km/h → foil, or your biggest kite
- UV 0 — low → no sun worries today
- 8 °C → light layer you can stash
- Daylight 07:10–18:21 → golden hour from 17:21
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