Temperature Blanket Color Chart
A temperature blanket color chart maps a yarn color to each slice of your local temperature range. Split the year's low-to-high span into even bands — usually about 8 colors — and pick a shade for each, cool colors for cold days through warm colors for hot ones. Then crochet one row a day in the color that matches that day's temperature.
How to choose your temperature blanket colors
Four steps. (1) Find your location's yearly temperature range — say −15 to 35 °C, or 20 to 100 °F. (2) Divide it into even bands; 8 colors is the common choice, fewer for a mild climate. (3) Pick a yarn color for each band — a cool-to-warm gradient reads most clearly. (4) Decide whether each row follows the day's high, low, or average — or both, as a two-round granny square for the high and the low.
Example color chart
Eight bands across an example 20–100 °F range, one yarn color each — the same cold-to-hot ramp the maker uses.
| Temperature | Yarn color |
|---|---|
| 20–30 °F | Purple |
| 30–40 °F | Cyan |
| 40–50 °F | Pale Cyan |
| 50–60 °F | Muted Green |
| 60–70 °F | Deep Green |
| 70–80 °F | Orange |
| 80–90 °F | Orange-Red |
| 90–100 °F | Deep Red |
Example only — a real chart is fitted to your own city's range, so every band actually appears in your blanket.
Let the tool build your chart
Guessing the band edges is the fiddly part. Pick your city and CrochetPop fits an even color chart to that place's real yearly range — no cold or hot band left empty — then computes the exact cut points and a per-color yarn list. You choose the palette; it does the math. Free, no sign-up.
High, low, or average?
Following the daily HIGH gives the brightest, warmest-looking blanket; the LOW runs cooler and calmer; the AVERAGE sits in between. Recording BOTH the high and the low — a two-tone granny square per day, one color for each — doubles the variety, which is popular in mild climates where the daily range is small.
A blanket of a year that mattered
Most temperature blankets track the current year, one easy row a day — a beginner-friendly first blanket that never feels overwhelming. But the colors can hold any year's weather: the year a baby was born, the year you rescued a pet, a year you want to remember. Built from that year's real records, every color is a real day.
Temperature blanket color FAQ
How many colors does a crochet temperature blanket need?
Most temperature blankets use around 8 yarn colors, one per temperature band. CrochetPop fits the bands to your own city's real range — the trailing year at your nearest weather station — so every color lands on temperatures you will actually record and no band goes unused. You choose the palette and the tool assigns each color its band. In a narrow, mild range you can use fewer bands, or color by both the daily high and low to double the variety.
How do you choose the temperature ranges for each color?
The ranges are fitted to your location once, on day one, so every color maps to a real slice of your climate and the bands never shift mid-blanket. The tool splits your station's low-to-high span into even bands and writes the exact cut points into a color chart you can print before you start — for example, a roughly 48–85 °F year divides into eight bands about 4.6 °F wide.
Should I use the high, low, or average temperature?
Any of the three works — it is a look choice, not a right answer. The daily high gives the warmest-looking blanket, the low the coolest. Many makers in mild climates record both the high and the low as a two-tone square each day to get more color variety from a narrow range.
What if my climate is mild and the colors barely change?
Fit the bands to your own range, not a national chart — even a narrow span divides into distinct colors. If it is still tight, use fewer bands, or color by both the daily high and low to double the variety in the same year. The tool fits the bands to your city automatically, so no color goes unused.
Does it work in Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Both. The color chart is just your temperature range split into even bands, so the method is identical in °C or °F — only the numbers on the band edges change. Pick whichever unit you think in.