United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Pacific Grove.

September leads for comfortable weather in Pacific Grove: typically 21.1°C by day, 12.3°C at night, with 2 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high21.1°C

Typical low12.3°C

Rain in September2 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · July

86climate match

Beach

September

September · August · July

52climate match

Outdoors

October

October · June · July

98climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 46 against September’s 86 — days reach only 16.1°C, 8° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 6.2°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

4616.1° / 6.2°

Feb

4716.2° / 6.9°

Mar

5516.9° / 7.6°

Apr

6417.2° / 8.5°

May

7218.2° / 10.1°

Jun

7819.3° / 11.2°

Jul

8220.1° / 12.4°

Aug

8420.4° / 12.7°

Sep

8621.1° / 12.3°

Oct

8020.3° / 10.4°

Nov

6418° / 8.2°

Dec

4715.9° / 6°

Monthly climate evidence for Pacific Grove — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 4 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16.1°C	6.2°C	87 mm	8.6	12.7°C	9 h 55	46	Good coverage
February	16.2°C	6.9°C	90 mm	9.1	12.6°C	10 h 47	47	Good coverage
March	16.9°C	7.6°C	66 mm	7.8	12.5°C	11 h 51	55	Good coverage
April	17.2°C	8.5°C	32 mm	5.3	12.1°C	13 h 05	64	Good coverage
May	18.2°C	10.1°C	11 mm	2.2	12.1°C	14 h 06	72	Good coverage
June	19.3°C	11.2°C	3 mm	0.5	12.6°C	14 h 39	78	Good coverage
July	20.1°C	12.4°C	1 mm	0.2	13.7°C	14 h 26	82	Good coverage
August	20.4°C	12.7°C	1 mm	0.2	14.4°C	13 h 33	84	Good coverage
September	21.1°C	12.3°C	2 mm	0.5	14.7°C	12 h 22	86	Good coverage
October	20.3°C	10.4°C	24 mm	2.6	14.4°C	11 h 11	80	Good coverage
November	18°C	8.2°C	45 mm	5.7	13.8°C	10 h 10	64	Good coverage
December	15.9°C	6°C	74 mm	7.8	13.0°C	9 h 40	47	Good coverage

Records at MONTEREY WFO, 1995–2019
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C17 Jan 2014	-3.3°C13 Jan 2007	51 mm23 Jan 2000	195 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 2015	24
February	28.3°C8 Feb 2016	0.6°C11 Feb 1999	55 mm3 Feb 1998	349 mm1998 · driest 1 mm in 1997	24
March	30.0°C16 Mar 2004	1.7°C3 Mar 2017	41 mm5 Mar 2016	180 mm2006 · driest 3 mm in 1997	24
April	33.3°C26 Apr 2004	3.3°C4 Apr 2009	37 mm4 Apr 2006	76 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2004	23
May	36.1°C16 May 1997	5.0°C1 May 2008	26 mm15 May 1996	57 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2013	23
June	35.6°C26 Jun 2003	6.7°C10 Jun 2018	12 mm4 Jun 2011	20 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2018	22
July	30.0°C15 Jul 1995	8.3°C23 Jul 2002	2 mm19 Jul 2015	3 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2002	24
August	32.8°C9 Aug 2002	8.3°C27 Aug 2009	4 mm19 Aug 1997	4 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1996	24
September	38.3°C1 Sep 2017	6.7°C26 Sep 2004	8 mm8 Sep 1999	11 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1997	24
October	40.0°C8 Oct 1996	4.4°C13 Oct 2017	60 mm13 Oct 2009	99 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 2002	24
November	32.8°C2 Nov 1997	0.6°C30 Nov 2006	48 mm30 Nov 2012	154 mm1997 · driest 1 mm in 1995	23
December	26.1°C5 Dec 2000	-3.3°C24 Dec 1998	90 mm11 Dec 2014	217 mm2014 · driest 4 mm in 1999	24

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

How often, not how much — every day in MONTEREY WFO’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	13%	28%	11%	32%	14.4–17.7°C
February	15%	32%	11%	46%	14.0–18.5°C
March	15%	25%	8%	30%	15.0–19.2°C
April	17%	18%	3%	17%	15.6–19.4°C
May	23%	7%	<1%	4%	16.0–20.8°C
June	40%	2%	<1%	0%	18.1–21.0°C
July	52%	<1%	0%	0%	18.3–21.8°C
August	59%	<1%	0%	0%	18.4–22.7°C
September	60%	2%	0%	<1%	18.8–23.3°C
October	46%	8%	2%	6%	18.6–22.2°C
November	23%	19%	4%	21%	16.3–20.5°C
December	10%	25%	8%	32%	14.0–17.9°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.

1996Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 22-year average. Warmest: 1997. Coolest: 2011.2018

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5380437
NOAA station: USC00045802 · MONTEREY WFO
Station distance: 6.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.62°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 4 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 MONTEREY WFO is what differs

Marina→Del Monte Forest→Carmel Highlands→New Monterey→Pacific Grove Acres→Seaside-Monterey→

Or put two places side by side: Pacific Grove vs Marina

Best time to visitPacific Grove.

September

September

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Pacific Grove.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.