United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bear Creek.

April leads for comfortable weather in Bear Creek: typically 23.6°C by day, 7.8°C at night, with 27 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high23.6°C

Typical low7.8°C

Rain in April27 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · May

85climate match

Beach

May

May · June · September

72climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · April

89climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 35 against April’s 85 — days reach only 13.5°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 3°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

3513.5° / 3°

Feb

5117° / 4.4°

Mar

6520° / 6.1°

Apr

8523.6° / 7.8°

May

7828.7° / 11.3°

Jun

6932.9° / 14.3°

Jul

5736.1° / 16.8°

Aug

6135.4° / 15.9°

Sep

6833° / 13.8°

Oct

8127° / 9.6°

Nov

6619.2° / 5.4°

Dec

3713.7° / 2.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Bear Creek — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	13.5°C	3°C	69 mm	7.2	9 h 51	35	Strong coverage
February	17°C	4.4°C	56 mm	7	10 h 45	51	Strong coverage
March	20°C	6.1°C	55 mm	6.6	11 h 51	65	Strong coverage
April	23.6°C	7.8°C	27 mm	3.6	13 h 06	85	Strong coverage
May	28.7°C	11.3°C	15 mm	2	14 h 09	78	Strong coverage
June	32.9°C	14.3°C	4 mm	0.5	14 h 43	69	Strong coverage
July	36.1°C	16.8°C	0 mm	0	14 h 30	57	Strong coverage
August	35.4°C	15.9°C	0 mm	0.1	13 h 35	61	Strong coverage
September	33°C	13.8°C	1 mm	0.4	12 h 23	68	Strong coverage
October	27°C	9.6°C	18 mm	2.2	11 h 10	81	Strong coverage
November	19.2°C	5.4°C	28 mm	3.9	10 h 07	66	Strong coverage
December	13.7°C	2.8°C	55 mm	7	9 h 36	37	Strong coverage

What has changed

Bear Creek runs -0.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.5

Feb

+0.1

Mar

-0.9

Apr

-0.7

May

-0.7

Jun

0.0

Jul

0.0

Aug

-0.2

Sep

+0.1

Oct

-1.1

Nov

+0.2

Dec

+1.2

April daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.9°C.

Records at MERCED, 1899–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.9°C9 Jan 1953	-10.6°C13 Jan 2007	56 mm30 Jan 1911	203 mm1909 · driest 0 mm in 2015	125
February	28.9°C19 Feb 1930	-6.7°C9 Feb 1904	54 mm22 Feb 1907	172 mm1936 · driest 0 mm in 2020	125
March	31.1°C17 Mar 1972	-6.7°C7 Mar 1908	56 mm9 Mar 1911	176 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 1956	121
April	36.7°C25 Apr 2001	-5.6°C3 Apr 1999	39 mm4 Apr 1925	117 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 2008	120
May	42.8°C25 May 1928	-1.1°C16 May 1978	33 mm21 May 1921	54 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1960	119
June	43.9°C15 Jun 1961	2.8°C7 Jun 2005	16 mm6 Jun 1934	26 mm1929 · driest 0 mm in 1949	121
July	45.6°C24 Jul 1902	4.4°C16 Jul 1904	11 mm9 Jul 1974	11 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 1922	123
August	45.6°C8 Aug 1905	2.2°C23 Aug 1979	12 mm12 Aug 1965	12 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1959	125
September	43.3°C8 Sep 1904	0.0°C22 Sep 1906	32 mm23 Sep 1904	46 mm1904 · driest 0 mm in 1960	122
October	38.9°C2 Oct 2010	-2.2°C30 Oct 1946	40 mm25 Oct 2021	96 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1986	121
November	32.8°C6 Nov 2010	-6.1°C30 Nov 1906	51 mm13 Nov 1981	125 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1959	122
December	24.4°C7 Dec 1912	-9.4°C24 Dec 1990	53 mm23 Dec 1955	142 mm1921 · driest 0 mm in 1930	122

Typical days per month at MERCED, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	7	3
February	<1	0	3	2
March	4	<1	<1	2
April	11	3	<1	<1
May	22	11	0	<1
June	27	21	0	<1
July	28	28	0	0
August	28	28	0	0
September	26	21	0	0
October	20	8	<1	<1
November	3	0	2	<1
December	0	0	9	2

How often, not how much — every day in MERCED’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	2%	23%	7%	28%	10.1–15.1°C
February	17%	24%	7%	29%	14.3–18.7°C
March	44%	21%	6%	21%	17.1–22.1°C
April	74%	12%	3%	8%	20.9–26.5°C
May	92%	6%	1%	2%	25.0–30.9°C
June	98%	2%	<1%	0%	30.4–35.1°C
July	100%	<1%	0%	0%	34.5–38.0°C
August	100%	<1%	0%	0%	33.4–37.0°C
September	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	30.1–34.0°C
October	90%	7%	2%	4%	24.3–29.2°C
November	40%	14%	4%	13%	16.5–21.5°C
December	2%	21%	6%	22%	11.1–15.5°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.

1902Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 99-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1948.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5326775
NOAA station: USC00045532 · MERCED
Station distance: 8.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.30°, 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 MERCED is what differs

Merced→Atwater→Winton→Planada→Le Grand→Catheys Valley→

Or put two places side by side: Bear Creek vs Merced

Best time to visitBear Creek.

April

May

November

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Bear Creek runs -0.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Bear Creek.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Bear Creek runs -0.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.