September
September · October · August
United States · 1991–2020
September leads for comfortable weather in Oceanside: typically 22°C by day, 17°C at night, with 4 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
September · October · August
August · July · September
November · April · October
The weakest month is February, scoring 59 against September’s 90 — days reach only 16.8°C, 7° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.
Month by month
The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Sea | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.2°C | 7.9°C | 57 mm | 5.3 | 15.2°C | 10 h 11 | 60 | Strong coverage |
| February | 16.8°C | 8.3°C | 61 mm | 5.3 | 15.2°C | 10 h 57 | 59 | Strong coverage |
| March | 16.9°C | 9.9°C | 34 mm | 4.1 | 15.5°C | 11 h 53 | 66 | Strong coverage |
| April | 17.7°C | 11.3°C | 20 mm | 2.1 | 16.2°C | 12 h 57 | 73 | Strong coverage |
| May | 18.4°C | 13.9°C | 7 mm | 1.2 | 17.5°C | 13 h 51 | 79 | Strong coverage |
| June | 19.3°C | 15.7°C | 2 mm | 0.4 | 18.9°C | 14 h 20 | 83 | Strong coverage |
| July | 21.2°C | 17.8°C | 1 mm | 0.3 | 20.7°C | 14 h 09 | 86 | Strong coverage |
| August | 22°C | 18.1°C | 1 mm | 0.1 | 21.4°C | 13 h 23 | 88 | Strong coverage |
| September | 22°C | 17°C | 4 mm | 0.5 | 21.0°C | 12 h 20 | 90 | Strong coverage |
| October | 21.1°C | 14.1°C | 15 mm | 1.9 | 19.6°C | 11 h 18 | 89 | Strong coverage |
| November | 19.6°C | 10.2°C | 19 mm | 2.6 | 17.7°C | 10 h 24 | 77 | Strong coverage |
| December | 17.5°C | 7.7°C | 40 mm | 4 | 16.0°C | 9 h 58 | 64 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
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.
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.6°C19 Jan 2005 | -6.7°C14 Jan 1963 | 67 mm9 Jan 2018 | 277 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 1976 | 86 |
| February | 32.2°C12 Feb 1977 | -2.2°C8 Feb 1974 | 68 mm22 Feb 2008 | 216 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1967 | 86 |
| March | 32.2°C18 Mar 1978 | 0.6°C4 Mar 1951 | 107 mm15 Mar 2023 | 224 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1997 | 84 |
| April | 37.2°C30 Apr 2014 | 0.6°C5 Apr 1975 | 78 mm10 Apr 2020 | 130 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2018 | 85 |
| May | 35.0°C13 May 2014 | 3.3°C18 May 1974 | 22 mm28 May 1990 | 35 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1985 | 86 |
| June | 33.9°C17 Jun 1957 | 6.1°C15 Jun 1975 | 15 mm5 Jun 1993 | 29 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 2005 | 82 |
| July | 32.2°C4 Jul 1985 | 7.8°C20 Jul 1975 | 11 mm18 Jul 2015 | 22 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2005 | 83 |
| August | 34.4°C6 Aug 1983 | 8.3°C9 Aug 1975 | 56 mm17 Aug 1977 | 71 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 2001 | 86 |
| September | 42.2°C26 Sep 1963 | 6.1°C28 Sep 1973 | 27 mm15 Sep 2015 | 79 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 1968 | 83 |
| October | 40.6°C22 Oct 1965 | 2.2°C30 Oct 1971 | 49 mm27 Oct 2004 | 129 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1999 | 83 |
| November | 37.8°C4 Nov 1976 | -1.7°C18 Nov 1961 | 54 mm15 Nov 2025 | 159 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1980 | 83 |
| December | 32.2°C29 Dec 1963 | -2.8°C21 Dec 1968 | 70 mm22 Dec 1945 | 183 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2000 | 85 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Heavy rain (10 mm+) |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | 2 |
| February | <1 | 2 |
| March | <1 | 1 |
| April | <1 | <1 |
| May | <1 | <1 |
| June | <1 | <1 |
| July | 1 | 0 |
| August | 2 | 0 |
| September | 3 | <1 |
| October | 3 | <1 |
| November | 2 | <1 |
| December | <1 | 1 |
The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 98); on 2011–2025 it is October (92). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19% | 17% | 6% | 17% | 16.0–19.2°C |
| February | 17% | 18% | 7% | 20% | 15.3–19.7°C |
| March | 15% | 15% | 5% | 13% | 15.5–19.5°C |
| April | 21% | 9% | 3% | 5% | 16.5–20.0°C |
| May | 28% | 4% | <1% | 2% | 17.2–21.0°C |
| June | 52% | 2% | <1% | 0% | 18.3–22.3°C |
| July | 91% | <1% | 0% | <1% | 20.4–24.5°C |
| August | 96% | <1% | <1% | <1% | 20.9–25.6°C |
| September | 90% | 2% | <1% | 1% | 20.5–25.1°C |
| October | 71% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 19.3–23.8°C |
| November | 41% | 10% | 3% | 8% | 18.2–21.7°C |
| December | 21% | 14% | 5% | 13% | 16.1–19.7°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.
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