United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carpinteria.

July leads for comfortable weather in Carpinteria: typically 24.3°C by day, 15.6°C at night, with 0 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high24.3°C

Typical low15.6°C

Rain in July0 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · September

98climate match

Beach

August

August · September · July

73climate match

Outdoors

November

November · April · May

96climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 56 against July’s 98 — days reach only 18.7°C, 5° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 8°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

5618.7° / 8°

Feb

5819° / 8.6°

Mar

6719.7° / 9.8°

Apr

8421.4° / 10.8°

May

8721.6° / 12.4°

Jun

9322.3° / 14°

Jul

9824.3° / 15.6°

Aug

9625° / 15.6°

Sep

9625° / 15.2°

Oct

9623.6° / 13.4°

Nov

8221.2° / 10.2°

Dec

6318.5° / 8°

Monthly climate evidence for Carpinteria — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	18.7°C	8°C	116 mm	6	14.4°C	10 h 05	56	Strong coverage
February	19°C	8.6°C	114 mm	6.1	14.2°C	10 h 53	58	Strong coverage
March	19.7°C	9.8°C	86 mm	5.5	14.0°C	11 h 52	67	Strong coverage
April	21.4°C	10.8°C	26 mm	2.1	13.6°C	13 h	84	Strong coverage
May	21.6°C	12.4°C	10 mm	1.3	14.5°C	13 h 56	87	Strong coverage
June	22.3°C	14°C	3 mm	0.6	16.3°C	14 h 26	93	Strong coverage
July	24.3°C	15.6°C	0 mm	0	17.9°C	14 h 15	98	Strong coverage
August	25°C	15.6°C	0 mm	0.1	18.3°C	13 h 26	96	Strong coverage
September	25°C	15.2°C	1 mm	0.5	18.4°C	12 h 21	96	Strong coverage
October	23.6°C	13.4°C	22 mm	1.5	17.9°C	11 h 16	96	Strong coverage
November	21.2°C	10.2°C	37 mm	2.7	16.5°C	10 h 19	82	Strong coverage
December	18.5°C	8°C	71 mm	4.5	14.9°C	9 h 52	63	Strong coverage

What has changed

Carpinteria runs +0.9°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

+0.4

Feb

+0.3

Mar

+1.1

Apr

+1.6

May

+1.3

Jun

+1.0

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+0.7

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+0.5

Dec

-0.3

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.8°C.

Records at SANTA BARBARA, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	32.2°C9 Jan 1923	-6.7°C10 Jan 1949	203 mm4 Jan 1995	615 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2003	130
February	34.4°C25 Feb 1921	-2.8°C9 Feb 1929	135 mm17 Feb 2017	553 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1912	131
March	35.6°C17 Mar 2026	-1.1°C3 Mar 1953	121 mm15 Mar 2003	298 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 1934	130
April	38.3°C6 Apr 1989	-1.1°C28 Apr 1970	84 mm17 Apr 2000	166 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1979	131
May	38.3°C9 May 1923	1.1°C5 May 1993	57 mm27 May 1906	75 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1967	134
June	38.3°C30 Jun 1937	4.4°C1 Jun 1916	29 mm11 Jun 1963	31 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 1893	132
July	40.6°C16 Jul 1978	6.7°C9 Jul 2004	16 mm9 Jul 1950	21 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 1961	130
August	36.7°C30 Aug 1915	4.4°C8 Aug 1992	18 mm9 Aug 1936	18 mm1936 · driest 0 mm in 2012	130
September	42.2°C17 Sep 1913	0.6°C30 Sep 1993	60 mm15 Sep 1910	102 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1980	131
October	39.4°C13 Oct 1950	-0.6°C15 Oct 1993	79 mm14 Oct 2009	158 mm1907 · driest 0 mm in 1990	131
November	36.7°C8 Nov 1914	-2.2°C24 Nov 1931	150 mm8 Nov 2002	269 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1948	131
December	33.3°C3 Dec 1958	-5.0°C25 Dec 1924	135 mm28 Dec 1977	250 mm1931 · driest 0 mm in 1897	122

Typical days per month at SANTA BARBARA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	3	<1	3
February	3	<1	3
March	4	<1	3
April	6	1	<1
May	4	1	<1
June	5	<1	<1
July	12	1	0
August	15	1	0
September	14	3	0
October	10	3	<1
November	5	<1	1
December	1	0	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 98); on 2011–2025 it is June (96). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SANTA BARBARA’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	32%	18%	10%	20%	16.0–20.7°C
February	32%	20%	11%	23%	16.7–21.3°C
March	39%	17%	8%	15%	17.3–21.7°C
April	52%	9%	3%	5%	18.7–22.9°C
May	63%	4%	1%	1%	19.1–23.2°C
June	83%	2%	<1%	0%	20.6–24.6°C
July	98%	<1%	<1%	0%	22.8–26.5°C
August	98%	<1%	<1%	0%	23.3–26.9°C
September	95%	2%	<1%	<1%	22.7–27.3°C
October	85%	5%	2%	2%	21.7–25.5°C
November	62%	9%	4%	8%	19.6–24.2°C
December	37%	15%	7%	15%	16.9–21.3°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.

1895Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 110-year average. Warmest: 2015. Coolest: 1948.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5334423
NOAA station: USC00047902 · SANTA BARBARA
Station distance: 15.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.40°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 SANTA BARBARA is what differs

Santa Barbara→Montecito→Mission Canyon→Toro Canyon→Summerland→Franciscan Village→

Or put two places side by side: Carpinteria vs Santa Barbara

Best time to visitCarpinteria.