United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
China Lake.

April leads for comfortable weather in China Lake: typically 26.3°C by day, 8.4°C at night, with 3 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low8.4°C

Rain in April3 mm

Comfort

April

April · March · October

81climate match

Beach

May

May · June · September

71climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · February

85climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 33 against April’s 81 — days average 40.7°C, 17° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

4616.1° / -0.3°

Feb

5818.4° / 1.9°

Mar

7822.6° / 5.4°

Apr

8126.3° / 8.4°

May

7231.3° / 13°

Jun

5237.1° / 17.5°

Jul

3340.7° / 21.4°

Aug

3839.9° / 20.1°

Sep

6135.5° / 15.8°

Oct

7528.3° / 9.2°

Nov

6720.9° / 2.7°

Dec

4315.3° / -0.8°

Monthly climate evidence for China Lake — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16.1°C	-0.3°C	24 mm	3	9 h 59	46	Strong coverage
February	18.4°C	1.9°C	26 mm	2.7	10 h 50	58	Strong coverage
March	22.6°C	5.4°C	11 mm	1.6	11 h 51	78	Strong coverage
April	26.3°C	8.4°C	3 mm	0.6	13 h 02	81	Strong coverage
May	31.3°C	13°C	3 mm	0.4	14 h 02	72	Strong coverage
June	37.1°C	17.5°C	0 mm	0.1	14 h 33	52	Strong coverage
July	40.7°C	21.4°C	1 mm	0.3	14 h 21	33	Strong coverage
August	39.9°C	20.1°C	2 mm	0.5	13 h 30	38	Strong coverage
September	35.5°C	15.8°C	6 mm	0.6	12 h 22	61	Strong coverage
October	28.3°C	9.2°C	5 mm	0.7	11 h 13	75	Strong coverage
November	20.9°C	2.7°C	4 mm	0.9	10 h 14	67	Strong coverage
December	15.3°C	-0.8°C	15 mm	1.7	9 h 45	43	Strong coverage

Records at CHINA LAKE NAF, 1945–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	31.7°C29 Jan 2017	-14.4°C13 Jan 1963	39 mm5 Jan 1992	126 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2002	60
February	32.8°C8 Feb 2017	-11.1°C7 Feb 1989	43 mm12 Feb 2003	104 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2013	60
March	35.6°C20 Mar 2026	-6.1°C13 Mar 1990	56 mm1 Mar 1983	93 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2026	61
April	40.0°C7 Apr 1989	-2.7°C9 Apr 2011	26 mm8 Apr 2020	48 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 1985	62
May	42.8°C28 May 2020	1.7°C14 May 1998	25 mm29 May 1945	54 mm1945 · driest 0 mm in 2024	62
June	47.8°C30 Jun 1994	5.6°C10 Jun 1954	7 mm5 Jun 1960	7 mm1960 · driest 0 mm in 1997	62
July	48.3°C11 Jul 2021	10.0°C22 Jul 1987	16 mm16 Jul 1984	22 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 2015	60
August	48.3°C2 Aug 1993	10.6°C28 Aug 1991	110 mm20 Aug 2023	110 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1960	60
September	45.6°C10 Sep 1993	3.9°C26 Sep 1986	39 mm25 Sep 1997	68 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1996	58
October	41.1°C2 Oct 2024	-6.6°C31 Oct 2019	20 mm31 Oct 1987	33 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1960	59
November	33.9°C2 Nov 2010	-8.9°C29 Nov 1989	27 mm15 Nov 2025	73 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1962	59
December	27.2°C16 Dec 1998	-13.3°C27 Dec 1962	48 mm28 Dec 2004	55 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2017	60

Typical days per month at CHINA LAKE NAF, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	16	<1
February	3	0	9	<1
March	11	2	2	<1
April	17	8	<1	<1
May	23	18	0	0
June	27	26	0	0
July	27	27	0	0
August	28	28	0	0
September	27	25	0	<1
October	22	12	<1	<1
November	6	<1	7	<1
December	<1	0	16	<1

How often, not how much — every day in CHINA LAKE NAF’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	17%	8%	2%	5%	12.5–18.3°C
February	40%	7%	2%	5%	15.0–21.2°C
March	64%	4%	<1%	2%	18.1–25.7°C
April	86%	2%	<1%	1%	23.2–29.5°C
May	97%	1%	<1%	0%	27.8–33.3°C
June	100%	<1%	0%	0%	33.7–38.8°C
July	99%	<1%	<1%	0%	37.4–42.3°C
August	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	37.0–40.9°C
September	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	32.9–36.9°C
October	93%	2%	<1%	<1%	26.3–30.9°C
November	55%	4%	1%	2%	17.4–23.2°C
December	13%	6%	1%	2%	13.1–18.4°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.

1946Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 50-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1948.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5336455
NOAA station: USW00093104 · CHINA LAKE NAF
Station distance: 4.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.65°, 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 CHINA LAKE NAF is what differs

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
China Lake.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.