United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Sacramento.

April leads for comfortable weather in Sacramento: typically 23.2°C by day, 9.8°C at night, with 37 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high23.2°C

Typical low9.8°C

Rain in April37 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · May

87climate match

Beach

June

June · September · May

75climate match

Outdoors

April

April · November · March

88climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 35 against April’s 87 — days reach only 13.8°C, 10° below 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

3513.8° / 5.3°

Feb

4917° / 6.7°

Mar

6620.1° / 8.4°

Apr

8723.2° / 9.8°

May

8427.6° / 12.4°

Jun

7431.9° / 15°

Jul

6134.9° / 16.5°

Aug

6334.4° / 16.3°

Sep

7332° / 15.1°

Oct

8726.2° / 11.8°

Nov

6618.7° / 7.6°

Dec

3613.7° / 5°

Monthly climate evidence for Sacramento — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	13.8°C	5.3°C	98 mm	8.6	9 h 45	35	Strong coverage
February	17°C	6.7°C	92 mm	8.2	10 h 41	49	Strong coverage
March	20.1°C	8.4°C	72 mm	7.6	11 h 50	66	Strong coverage
April	23.2°C	9.8°C	37 mm	4.2	13 h 09	87	Strong coverage
May	27.6°C	12.4°C	22 mm	3	14 h 15	84	Strong coverage
June	31.9°C	15°C	5 mm	0.9	14 h 51	74	Strong coverage
July	34.9°C	16.5°C	0 mm	0	14 h 37	61	Strong coverage
August	34.4°C	16.3°C	0 mm	0.1	13 h 40	63	Strong coverage
September	32°C	15.1°C	4 mm	0.6	12 h 23	73	Strong coverage
October	26.2°C	11.8°C	24 mm	2.4	11 h 07	87	Strong coverage
November	18.7°C	7.6°C	45 mm	5.3	10 h 01	66	Strong coverage
December	13.7°C	5°C	89 mm	8.1	9 h 29	36	Strong coverage

What has changed

Sacramento runs +1.5°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

+2.8

Feb

+1.0

Mar

+0.8

Apr

+1.4

May

+0.7

Jun

+1.6

Jul

+1.6

Aug

+1.6

Sep

+1.4

Oct

+1.1

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+2.2

April daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.5°C.

Records at SACRAMENTO 5 ESE, 1877–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C24 Jan 2014	-7.2°C14 Jan 1888	80 mm21 Jan 1943	323 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 2015	148
February	26.7°C18 Feb 1899	-6.1°C13 Feb 1884	82 mm17 Feb 1986	261 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 2020	148
March	32.2°C26 Mar 1988	-1.7°C15 Mar 1880	67 mm9 Mar 1884	215 mm1906 · driest 1 mm in 1956	148
April	36.7°C26 Apr 2004	1.1°C6 Apr 1929	134 mm20 Apr 1880	361 mm1880 · driest 0 mm in 1949	147
May	41.7°C28 May 1984	2.8°C3 May 1950	49 mm5 May 1889	87 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1903	148
June	44.4°C30 Jun 1934	6.1°C1 Jun 1929	21 mm4 Jun 1993	37 mm1884 · driest 0 mm in 1924	147
July	45.6°C17 Jul 1925	8.3°C3 Jul 1901	22 mm8 Jul 1974	23 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 1999	148
August	44.4°C16 Aug 2020	8.9°C20 Aug 1914	17 mm29 Aug 1953	17 mm1953 · driest 0 mm in 1970	148
September	46.7°C6 Sep 2022	6.7°C18 Sep 1882	80 mm12 Sep 1918	92 mm1904 · driest 0 mm in 1903	148
October	39.4°C3 Oct 2024	1.1°C30 Oct 1935	138 mm24 Oct 2021	174 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 2019	147
November	30.0°C1 Nov 1997	-2.8°C28 Nov 1880	77 mm17 Nov 1885	288 mm1885 · driest 0 mm in 1929	148
December	22.2°C28 Dec 1967	-8.3°C11 Dec 1932	85 mm31 Dec 1890	310 mm1955 · driest 0 mm in 1989	148

Typical days per month at SACRAMENTO 5 ESE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	2	3
February	<1	0	<1	3
March	5	<1	0	3
April	11	4	0	1
May	22	11	0	<1
June	28	20	0	<1
July	31	29	0	0
August	31	28	0	0
September	28	21	0	<1
October	20	7	0	<1
November	3	0	<1	1
December	0	0	2	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was October (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is April (91). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SACRAMENTO 5 ESE’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	2%	27%	11%	34%	9.7–14.6°C
February	13%	26%	10%	33%	12.8–18.0°C
March	36%	24%	8%	27%	15.6–21.4°C
April	62%	14%	4%	11%	18.9–25.1°C
May	84%	8%	2%	4%	22.5–28.8°C
June	97%	3%	<1%	<1%	27.2–33.2°C
July	100%	<1%	0%	0%	31.2–35.6°C
August	100%	<1%	0%	<1%	30.5–35.1°C
September	96%	3%	<1%	2%	27.5–33.0°C
October	83%	8%	3%	7%	22.4–28.0°C
November	31%	17%	6%	20%	15.7–20.3°C
December	1%	25%	10%	30%	10.2–14.7°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.

1878Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 145-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1880.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5389489
NOAA station: USW00023271 · SACRAMENTO 5 ESE
Station distance: 7.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.58°, 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 SACRAMENTO 5 ESE is what differs

Roseville→Arden-Arcade→Citrus Heights→Folsom→Rancho Cordova→Carmichael→

Or put two places side by side: Sacramento vs Roseville

Best time to visitSacramento.

April

June

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Sacramento runs +1.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Sacramento.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Sacramento runs +1.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.