page_title: Colorado City, Arizona
section_title: Geography and climate
hierarchical_section_title: Colorado City, Arizona / Geography and climate
caption_attribution_description: English: The landscape surrounding Colorado City, AZ. 2014.
context_page_description: Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town was 4,821. At least three Mormon fundamentalist sects are said to have been based there.
context_section_description: Colorado City is located at 36°59′22″N 112°58′41″W (36.989580, -112.978044).
  According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 10.5 square miles (27 km²), of which 10.5 square miles (27 km²) is land and 0.100% is water.
  Colorado City has the typical cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) of the interior Mountain West, with very warm to hot summers and cool to cold winters, typified by very large diurnal temperature ranges throughout most of the year. The hottest day on record has been July 5, 1985 with 108 °F (42 °C). Rainfall is lowest from April to June, but is never particularly high on average, though during strong extratropical low pressure systems, as much as 5 inches (130 mm) may occasionally fall during a month. The wettest year has been 1998 with 26.36 inches (669.5 mm), though only 2005 has otherwise received over 20 inches (508 mm), whilst the driest year since 1963 has been 2009 with 6.45 inches (163.8 mm). Snowfall is relatively light; the most in a month was in January 1982 with 29.0 inches (0.74 m) and that winter had the most for a year with 46.50 inches (1.181 m). The highest daily snow depth was however on February 2, 1979 with 13 inches (0.33 m).
caption: The landscape surrounding Colorado City in 2014
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