United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Los Angeles.

May leads for comfortable weather in Los Angeles: typically 23.6°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 8 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.6°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in May8 mm

Comfort

May

May · April · June

98climate match

Beach

August

August · September · July

93climate match

Outdoors

December

December · March · January

92climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 69 against May’s 98 — days reach only 20.4°C, 4° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 10.3°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

7020.4° / 9.7°

Feb

6920.4° / 10.3°

Mar

8121.4° / 11.6°

Apr

9222.8° / 12.9°

May

9823.6° / 14.8°

Jun

9225.6° / 16.5°

Jul

8028.2° / 18.3°

Aug

7629.3° / 18.8°

Sep

7928.8° / 18.1°

Oct

9126.3° / 15.7°

Nov

9223.2° / 12°

Dec

7120° / 9.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Los Angeles — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 23 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	20.4°C	9.7°C	84 mm	5	14.9°C	10 h 07	70	Strong coverage
February	20.4°C	10.3°C	92 mm	5.4	14.8°C	10 h 54	69	Strong coverage
March	21.4°C	11.6°C	57 mm	4.1	14.8°C	11 h 52	81	Strong coverage
April	22.8°C	12.9°C	18 mm	2	15.1°C	12 h 59	92	Strong coverage
May	23.6°C	14.8°C	8 mm	1.2	16.6°C	13 h 55	98	Strong coverage
June	25.6°C	16.5°C	2 mm	0.3	18.2°C	14 h 25	92	Strong coverage
July	28.2°C	18.3°C	1 mm	0.2	19.7°C	14 h 13	80	Strong coverage
August	29.3°C	18.8°C	0 mm	0	20.2°C	13 h 25	76	Strong coverage
September	28.8°C	18.1°C	3 mm	0.3	20.0°C	12 h 21	79	Strong coverage
October	26.3°C	15.7°C	15 mm	1.7	19.0°C	11 h 16	91	Strong coverage
November	23.2°C	12°C	20 mm	2.1	17.3°C	10 h 21	92	Strong coverage
December	20°C	9.3°C	63 mm	4.5	15.6°C	9 h 54	71	Strong coverage

What has changed

Los Angeles runs +0.4°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

+0.7

Feb

-0.2

Mar

+0.5

Apr

+0.7

May

-0.1

Jun

-0.2

Jul

-0.4

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+0.8

Oct

+0.9

Nov

+0.9

Dec

+0.2

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.8°C.

Records at LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN/USC, 1906–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	35.0°C18 Jan 1971	-2.2°C4 Jan 1949	145 mm26 Jan 1956	379 mm1969 · driest 0 mm in 2003	113
February	35.0°C20 Feb 1995	-1.7°C15 Feb 1911	122 mm24 Feb 1913	348 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1964	113
March	36.7°C26 Mar 1988	1.7°C4 Mar 1976	149 mm2 Mar 1938	213 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1972	112
April	41.1°C6 Apr 1989	3.9°C7 Apr 1975	70 mm5 Apr 1926	191 mm1926 · driest 0 mm in 2013	114
May	38.9°C15 May 2014	6.1°C10 May 1922	51 mm8 May 1977	91 mm1921 · driest 0 mm in 1970	112
June	44.4°C26 Jun 1990	9.4°C4 Jun 1999	19 mm5 Jun 1993	25 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1986	112
July	42.2°C6 Jul 2018	11.7°C17 Jul 1907	15 mm25 Jul 1906	15 mm1906 · driest 0 mm in 1976	113
August	40.6°C6 Aug 1983	10.6°C1 Aug 1933	63 mm20 Aug 2023	76 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1985	113
September	45.0°C27 Sep 2010	10.0°C22 Sep 1921	101 mm25 Sep 1939	144 mm1939 · driest 0 mm in 1970	111
October	42.2°C4 Oct 1987	5.0°C30 Oct 1971	44 mm17 Oct 1934	116 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1952	112
November	37.8°C1 Nov 1966	3.3°C24 Nov 1906	98 mm7 Nov 1966	246 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1975	112
December	33.3°C8 Dec 1938	-1.1°C8 Dec 1978	141 mm28 Dec 2004	260 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1912	112

Typical days per month at LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN/USC, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	6	<1	3
February	5	<1	3
March	6	1	2
April	9	3	<1
May	9	2	<1
June	18	3	<1
July	29	8	0
August	30	13	0
September	26	11	<1
October	18	7	<1
November	10	3	<1
December	4	0	2

How often, not how much — every day in LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN/USC’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	42%	17%	8%	19%	16.8–21.9°C
February	45%	18%	9%	20%	16.9–22.7°C
March	52%	15%	6%	12%	18.0–23.0°C
April	64%	9%	3%	5%	19.6–24.1°C
May	81%	3%	<1%	1%	21.2–25.1°C
June	95%	<1%	<1%	<1%	22.8–27.4°C
July	100%	<1%	0%	0%	26.2–30.4°C
August	99%	<1%	<1%	<1%	26.8–30.8°C
September	98%	2%	<1%	1%	25.7–30.5°C
October	91%	5%	1%	2%	23.7–28.2°C
November	72%	8%	4%	6%	20.4–25.4°C
December	45%	15%	6%	14%	17.6–22.4°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.

1909Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 109-year average. Warmest: 1981. Coolest: 1909.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5368361
NOAA station: USW00093134 · LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN/USC
Station distance: 5.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.05°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 23 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 LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN/USC is what differs

Hollywood→Koreatown→South Gate→Boyle Heights→Florence-Graham→Huntington Park→

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Los Angeles runs +0.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Los Angeles.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Los Angeles runs +0.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.