United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
California City.

May leads for comfortable weather in California City: typically 27.5°C by day, 12.7°C at night, with 3 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high27.5°C

Typical low12.7°C

Rain in May3 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · April

84climate match

Beach

June

June · September · July

79climate match

Outdoors

March

March · April · November

92climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 41 against May’s 84 — days reach only 14°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0.6°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

4314.5° / 1°

Feb

5416.7° / 3.3°

Mar

7020° / 5.6°

Apr

8222.5° / 7.9°

May

8427.5° / 12.7°

Jun

6433.3° / 18.1°

Jul

4636.8° / 21.5°

Aug

4936.6° / 20.3°

Sep

6832.8° / 16.4°

Oct

8326.6° / 10.5°

Nov

6619.4° / 4.7°

Dec

4114° / 0.6°

Monthly climate evidence for California City — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.5°C	1°C	24 mm	2.9	10 h 02	43	Good coverage
February	16.7°C	3.3°C	38 mm	3.3	10 h 51	54	Good coverage
March	20°C	5.6°C	16 mm	2.1	11 h 52	70	Good coverage
April	22.5°C	7.9°C	5 mm	1	13 h 01	82	Good coverage
May	27.5°C	12.7°C	3 mm	0.5	13 h 59	84	Good coverage
June	33.3°C	18.1°C	1 mm	0.1	14 h 30	64	Good coverage
July	36.8°C	21.5°C	2 mm	0.2	14 h 18	46	Good coverage
August	36.6°C	20.3°C	5 mm	0.3	13 h 28	49	Good coverage
September	32.8°C	16.4°C	4 mm	0.4	12 h 21	68	Good coverage
October	26.6°C	10.5°C	6 mm	0.9	11 h 14	83	Good coverage
November	19.4°C	4.7°C	7 mm	1.3	10 h 16	66	Good coverage
December	14°C	0.6°C	14 mm	1.9	9 h 48	41	Good coverage

Records at MOJAVE, 1904–2020
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.8°C26 Jan 1909	-12.2°C6 Jan 1913	45 mm9 Jan 1907	164 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1910	55
February	32.2°C18 Feb 1981	-8.9°C6 Feb 1989	68 mm10 Feb 1978	174 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1972	57
March	31.7°C31 Mar 1966	-8.3°C2 Mar 1971	73 mm1 Mar 1983	114 mm1912 · driest 0 mm in 1976	58
April	37.2°C18 Apr 1914	-2.8°C20 Apr 1972	32 mm6 Apr 1906	53 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1966	59
May	40.0°C28 May 2003	0.0°C21 May 1908	28 mm9 May 1977	33 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1966	52
June	44.4°C26 Jun 1914	3.3°C1 Jun 1967	10 mm4 Jun 1984	10 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 2002	55
July	47.2°C23 Jul 1914	6.1°C6 Jul 1979	30 mm30 Jul 1984	62 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1906	61
August	47.8°C5 Aug 1914	8.3°C28 Aug 1987	49 mm20 Aug 1995	51 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1980	58
September	43.3°C10 Sep 1914	-0.6°C30 Sep 1909	31 mm11 Sep 1976	75 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1968	52
October	37.8°C3 Oct 1980	-5.6°C30 Oct 1971	49 mm1 Oct 1981	51 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 2003	60
November	35.6°C3 Nov 1914	-10.6°C24 Nov 1979	50 mm19 Nov 1967	96 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 1979	54
December	26.1°C6 Dec 1977	-13.3°C23 Dec 1990	61 mm29 Dec 1965	85 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 2006	54

Typical days per month at MOJAVE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	11	<1
February	<1	0	5	1
March	5	<1	2	<1
April	10	2	<1	0
May	17	9	0	<1
June	23	19	0	0
July	25	25	0	0
August	25	25	0	<1
September	25	21	0	<1
October	17	7	0	<1
November	4	<1	3	<1
December	0	0	12	<1

How often, not how much — every day in MOJAVE’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	11%	10%	3%	8%	11.5–17.8°C
February	29%	11%	4%	10%	13.2–20.1°C
March	42%	9%	2%	6%	15.6–23.3°C
April	65%	5%	<1%	2%	18.4–25.5°C
May	87%	1%	<1%	0%	23.0–29.9°C
June	99%	<1%	0%	0%	30.2–34.9°C
July	99%	1%	<1%	<1%	34.6–38.4°C
August	99%	1%	<1%	<1%	34.4–38.1°C
September	96%	2%	<1%	1%	29.3–34.4°C
October	85%	3%	<1%	1%	23.1–29.5°C
November	45%	5%	1%	3%	16.5–21.6°C
December	11%	7%	2%	5%	11.2–16.6°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.

1909Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 32-year average. Warmest: 1996. Coolest: 1912.2013

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5332748
NOAA station: USC00045756 · MOJAVE
Station distance: 18.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 19 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.13°, 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.

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
California City.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.