United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Orcutt.

August leads for comfortable weather in Orcutt: typically 23.4°C by day, 12.6°C at night, with 0 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high23.4°C

Typical low12.6°C

Rain in August0 mm

Comfort

August

August · September · July

94climate match

Beach

August

August · September · July

60climate match

Outdoors

May

May · April · June

95climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 55 against August’s 94 — days reach only 18.3°C, 6° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 4.8°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

5518.3° / 4.8°

Feb

5618.4° / 5.6°

Mar

6219.2° / 6.6°

Apr

7320.2° / 7.1°

May

7921° / 9°

Jun

8522° / 10.6°

Jul

9223.1° / 12.4°

Aug

9423.4° / 12.6°

Sep

9424.1° / 11.8°

Oct

9023.8° / 9.8°

Nov

7521.2° / 6.6°

Dec

5718.1° / 4.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Orcutt — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 17 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	18.3°C	4.8°C	70 mm	6.5	13.5°C	10 h 03	55	Strong coverage
February	18.4°C	5.6°C	72 mm	6.8	13.2°C	10 h 52	56	Strong coverage
March	19.2°C	6.6°C	65 mm	6.1	12.8°C	11 h 52	62	Strong coverage
April	20.2°C	7.1°C	24 mm	3.2	12.1°C	13 h 01	73	Strong coverage
May	21°C	9°C	9 mm	1.3	12.3°C	13 h 58	79	Strong coverage
June	22°C	10.6°C	2 mm	0.3	13.1°C	14 h 29	85	Strong coverage
July	23.1°C	12.4°C	1 mm	0.2	14.4°C	14 h 17	92	Strong coverage
August	23.4°C	12.6°C	0 mm	0.1	15.0°C	13 h 28	94	Strong coverage
September	24.1°C	11.8°C	2 mm	0.4	15.4°C	12 h 21	94	Strong coverage
October	23.8°C	9.8°C	14 mm	1.8	15.5°C	11 h 15	90	Strong coverage
November	21.2°C	6.6°C	28 mm	3.2	14.9°C	10 h 17	75	Strong coverage
December	18.1°C	4.3°C	52 mm	5.4	13.9°C	9 h 49	57	Strong coverage

What has changed

Orcutt runs +1.0°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

+1.2

Feb

+0.8

Mar

+1.3

Apr

+1.2

May

+0.8

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+0.4

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.5

Nov

+1.5

Dec

+0.7

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.5°C.

Records at SANTA MARIA PUBLIC AP, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	31.7°C16 Jan 2014	-6.7°C2 Jan 1976	87 mm9 Jan 2023	299 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1976	79
February	31.7°C2 Feb 1995	-5.6°C27 Feb 1971	66 mm24 Feb 2023	294 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2020	79
March	35.0°C14 Mar 2015	-4.4°C2 Mar 1971	88 mm20 Mar 2011	239 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1956	79
April	39.4°C6 Apr 1989	-0.6°C21 Apr 1971	54 mm17 Apr 2000	108 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 1973	79
May	40.6°C15 May 2014	-0.6°C2 May 1964	44 mm5 May 1998	81 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2025	79
June	43.3°C20 Jun 2008	2.2°C4 Jun 1962	18 mm16 Jun 1995	22 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1984	79
July	40.0°C8 Jul 1985	6.1°C6 Jul 1951	16 mm9 Jul 1950	16 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 1963	79
August	40.0°C29 Aug 2009	6.1°C23 Aug 1973	21 mm19 Aug 1976	22 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1981	78
September	41.1°C2 Sep 2017	2.2°C26 Sep 1948	45 mm19 Sep 2022	78 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1968	78
October	42.2°C4 Oct 1987	-3.3°C29 Oct 1971	48 mm6 Oct 1960	59 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1958	78
November	35.6°C7 Nov 2006	-3.9°C17 Nov 1958	48 mm23 Nov 1965	120 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1959	78
December	32.2°C3 Dec 1958	-6.7°C7 Dec 1978	81 mm18 Dec 2010	250 mm2010 · driest 1 mm in 1989	78

Typical days per month at SANTA MARIA PUBLIC AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	2	<1	3	2
February	3	<1	2	3
March	3	<1	<1	2
April	4	<1	<1	<1
May	4	<1	0	<1
June	4	<1	0	0
July	7	<1	0	0
August	8	<1	0	0
September	10	3	0	0
October	11	4	0	<1
November	6	1	<1	<1
December	2	0	4	2

How often, not how much — every day in SANTA MARIA PUBLIC AP’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	28%	20%	7%	22%	15.4–20.5°C
February	29%	22%	8%	28%	16.0–20.6°C
March	31%	19%	6%	20%	15.8–20.8°C
April	39%	11%	3%	8%	17.2–21.7°C
May	48%	4%	<1%	2%	18.5–22.4°C
June	74%	<1%	0%	<1%	19.9–23.5°C
July	93%	<1%	0%	0%	21.3–24.5°C
August	96%	<1%	0%	0%	21.7–24.4°C
September	92%	2%	<1%	<1%	22.2–26.0°C
October	77%	5%	1%	2%	21.3–25.5°C
November	54%	12%	4%	12%	18.7–23.4°C
December	29%	17%	5%	17%	15.9–20.6°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.

1948Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 78-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1971.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5379609
NOAA station: USW00023273 · SANTA MARIA PUBLIC AP
Station distance: 3.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.87°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 17 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 MARIA PUBLIC AP is what differs

Santa Maria→Guadalupe→Woodlands→Casmalia→Antonio→Barsug→

Or put two places side by side: Orcutt vs Santa Maria

Best time to visitOrcutt.

August

August

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Orcutt runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Orcutt.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Orcutt runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.