We don’t expect any complaints from trick-or-treaters this year, with plenty of sunshine and warm temperatures in the forecast for Halloween 2024 in the New Jersey area.

Some parts of our region could even get close to record highs on October 31, according to data from the National Weather Service.

As trick-or-treaters take to the streets, afternoon temperatures on Thursday are expected to reach very close to 80 degrees in many areas and possibly even a few degrees higher than that, marking a crack in weather records that have been going on since the 1940s have held up.

In the Newark area, the warmest Halloween high was 82 degrees, set in 1946. In the Trenton area, the Halloween record is 81 degrees, and in the Atlantic City area it is 83 degrees.

Those records were also set in 1946 — the same year, Halloween record highs were set in Philadelphia (82 degrees) and in New York City’s Central Park (81 degrees), according to National Weather Service data.

The images in this post show the Top 5 hottest Halloweens recorded in Newark, New York City, Atlantic City, and Trenton.

Worth noting: Normal highs for October 31 range from 60 to 62 degrees in our region, so temperatures on Thursday could be about 20 degrees warmer than normal.

That’s a welcome Halloween treat from Mother Nature.

Current weather radar