Halloween 2024 Weather Forecast: Unusually warm but ideal for trick

At Providence, afternoon temperature is expected to reach as high as 80°F around 2pm on Halloween day, but for trick-or-treat in the early evening will slowly cool to 75°F by sunset at 5:38pm and further to 70°F by end of twilight at 6:08pm. Chance of precipitation will be near zero.

While unlikely to break the Providence record of 83°F set in 1946, it will be much warmer than the mean high temperature of 58.2°F established since records have been kept beginning in 1905 and only the second time in that period to exceed 73°F, a mark reached in 2004. Warm but slightly lower temperatures have been encountered with some frequency, and 72°F has been reached five times (1942, 1945, 1948, 1982, 2009).

Conversely, the lowest high temperature record of 38°F was set in 1925, a day on which a trace of snow was observed. The lowest low temperature record is 24°F reached twice (1966, 2020); of course, trick-or-treat was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with an afternoon high of only 47°F. The mean low is 39.4°F.