United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bakersfield.

April leads for comfortable weather in Bakersfield: typically 23.9°C by day, 9.5°C at night, with 19 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high23.9°C

Typical low9.5°C

Rain in April19 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · May

90climate match

Beach

May

May · June · September

78climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · April

94climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 47 against April’s 90 — days reach only 14.9°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 3.5°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

4714.9° / 3.5°

Feb

6017.9° / 4.5°

Mar

7621.1° / 7.1°

Apr

9023.9° / 9.5°

May

8228.6° / 13.5°

Jun

6433.4° / 17.7°

Jul

4736.6° / 21°

Aug

5235.9° / 20.1°

Sep

6732.9° / 17.3°

Oct

8626.7° / 12.2°

Nov

7119.8° / 6.7°

Dec

4915.1° / 3.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Bakersfield — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.9°C	3.5°C	29 mm	5.2	10 h 01	47	Good coverage
February	17.9°C	4.5°C	24 mm	4.1	10 h 51	60	Good coverage
March	21.1°C	7.1°C	24 mm	3.6	11 h 52	76	Good coverage
April	23.9°C	9.5°C	19 mm	2.9	13 h 02	90	Good coverage
May	28.6°C	13.5°C	7 mm	1.3	14 h 00	82	Good coverage
June	33.4°C	17.7°C	0 mm	0.1	14 h 32	64	Good coverage
July	36.6°C	21°C	0 mm	0.1	14 h 19	47	Good coverage
August	35.9°C	20.1°C	0 mm	0	13 h 29	52	Good coverage
September	32.9°C	17.3°C	2 mm	0.3	12 h 21	67	Good coverage
October	26.7°C	12.2°C	6 mm	1.1	11 h 14	86	Good coverage
November	19.8°C	6.7°C	12 mm	2.1	10 h 15	71	Good coverage
December	15.1°C	3.1°C	21 mm	3.9	9 h 47	49	Good coverage

Records at BAKERSFIELD 5 NW, 1999–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C25 Jan 2014	-6.1°C12 Jan 1999	27 mm25 Jan 1999	90 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 2003	27
February	30.0°C13 Feb 2022	-3.9°C1 Feb 2002	39 mm25 Feb 2023	60 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2020	27
March	34.4°C19 Mar 2026	-0.6°C6 Mar 1999	32 mm6 Mar 2019	96 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2026	28
April	36.7°C8 Apr 2022	-1.1°C11 Apr 1999	24 mm8 Apr 2020	70 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2023	28
May	40.0°C18 May 2009	3.9°C8 May 2003	20 mm2 May 2009	43 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2012	27
June	43.3°C22 Jun 2008	7.8°C4 Jun 1999	11 mm7 Jun 2023	12 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2004	27
July	44.4°C8 Jul 2024	11.1°C9 Jul 1999	1 mm19 Jul 2015	2 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2016	27
August	42.8°C30 Aug 2017	12.8°C31 Aug 1999	28 mm21 Aug 2023	28 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2008	26
September	42.2°C10 Sep 2021	1.7°C20 Sep 2007	23 mm14 Sep 2017	25 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2012	26
October	38.3°C4 Oct 2024	4.4°C31 Oct 2023	23 mm26 Oct 2021	33 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2002	26
November	33.3°C6 Nov 2010	-3.3°C29 Nov 2004	32 mm17 Nov 2025	77 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 2000	26
December	26.7°C9 Dec 2006	-4.4°C1 Dec 2004	29 mm24 Dec 2016	81 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 2000	27

Typical days per month at BAKERSFIELD 5 NW, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	5	1
February	1	0	3	<1
March	6	<1	<1	<1
April	11	4	<1	<1
May	22	12	0	<1
June	26	22	0	0
July	29	29	0	0
August	28	28	0	0
September	27	21	0	0
October	20	7	0	<1
November	4	<1	1	<1
December	0	0	6	<1

How often, not how much — every day in BAKERSFIELD 5 NW’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	10%	17%	3%	19%	13.1–17.1°C
February	30%	15%	3%	16%	16.1–20.0°C
March	56%	14%	3%	12%	19.2–24.2°C
April	77%	9%	2%	3%	21.7–25.8°C
May	95%	4%	<1%	2%	26.4–30.6°C
June	100%	<1%	<1%	0%	31.7–35.3°C
July	100%	<1%	0%	0%	35.4–38.2°C
August	100%	<1%	<1%	0%	34.6–37.1°C
September	99%	<1%	<1%	0%	31.2–34.0°C
October	92%	4%	<1%	<1%	25.1–29.1°C
November	48%	7%	1%	4%	17.6–21.5°C
December	11%	14%	2%	12%	13.2–16.8°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1999Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 23-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1999.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5325738
NOAA station: USC00040444 · BAKERSFIELD 5 NW
Station distance: 5.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.37°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from BAKERSFIELD 5 NW is what differs

Oildale→Lamont→Rosedale→Greenacres→Greenfield→Weedpatch→

Or put two places side by side: Bakersfield vs Oildale

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Bakersfield.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.