United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Sand City.

September leads for comfortable weather in Sand City: typically 21.6°C by day, 11.9°C at night, with 2 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high21.6°C

Typical low11.9°C

Rain in September2 mm

Comfort

September

September · October · August

86climate match

Beach

September

September · August · October

52climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · August

96climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 42 against September’s 86 — days reach only 15.7°C, 8° 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

4215.7° / 7.2°

Feb

4516.1° / 7.4°

Mar

5116.9° / 7.8°

Apr

6417.3° / 8.2°

May

6917.8° / 9.4°

Jun

7518.9° / 10.4°

Jul

7919.5° / 11.7°

Aug

8220.3° / 12°

Sep

8621.6° / 11.9°

Oct

8421.3° / 10.9°

Nov

6518° / 8.7°

Dec

4315.1° / 6.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Sand City — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 3 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	15.7°C	7.2°C	111 mm	9.1	12.7°C	9 h 55	42	Strong coverage
February	16.1°C	7.4°C	103 mm	9.3	12.6°C	10 h 47	45	Strong coverage
March	16.9°C	7.8°C	89 mm	8.4	12.5°C	11 h 51	51	Strong coverage
April	17.3°C	8.2°C	35 mm	5	12.1°C	13 h 05	64	Strong coverage
May	17.8°C	9.4°C	16 mm	2.9	12.1°C	14 h 06	69	Strong coverage
June	18.9°C	10.4°C	4 mm	1	12.6°C	14 h 39	75	Strong coverage
July	19.5°C	11.7°C	1 mm	0.2	13.7°C	14 h 26	79	Strong coverage
August	20.3°C	12°C	2 mm	0.4	14.4°C	13 h 33	82	Strong coverage
September	21.6°C	11.9°C	2 mm	0.6	14.7°C	12 h 22	86	Strong coverage
October	21.3°C	10.9°C	21 mm	2.3	14.4°C	11 h 11	84	Strong coverage
November	18°C	8.7°C	48 mm	5.8	13.8°C	10 h 10	65	Strong coverage
December	15.1°C	6.9°C	96 mm	8.4	13.0°C	9 h 40	43	Strong coverage

What has changed

Sand City 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

+0.5

Feb

-0.4

Mar

-0.1

Apr

-0.8

May

-0.7

Jun

-0.7

Jul

-0.9

Aug

-0.9

Sep

-1.0

Oct

+0.1

Nov

-0.3

Dec

0.0

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.5°C.

Records at MONTEREY, 1941–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	32.2°C11 Jan 1942	-5.6°C10 Jan 1949	73 mm27 Jan 2021	270 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2015	78
February	30.0°C20 Feb 1995	-3.3°C13 Feb 1949	74 mm3 Feb 1998	363 mm1998 · driest 1 mm in 1953	78
March	31.1°C14 Mar 2015	0.0°C1 Mar 1943	56 mm22 Mar 2005	244 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2026	76
April	33.9°C20 Apr 2009	1.7°C1 Apr 1976	54 mm1 Apr 1974	181 mm1967 · driest 1 mm in 1992	76
May	34.4°C15 May 1970	1.7°C2 May 1942	36 mm18 May 1957	72 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2022	76
June	36.1°C25 Jun 1993	5.0°C20 Jun 1942	25 mm16 Jun 1995	40 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 2006	76
July	36.1°C17 Jul 1988	6.1°C2 Jul 1952	18 mm2 Jul 1980	19 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 1984	75
August	35.6°C24 Aug 2010	7.2°C10 Aug 1956	11 mm18 Aug 1975	25 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1958	74
September	40.0°C2 Sep 2017	5.0°C25 Sep 1942	40 mm18 Sep 1959	80 mm1959 · driest 0 mm in 1995	75
October	40.0°C5 Oct 1987	1.7°C29 Oct 1942	68 mm13 Oct 2009	111 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 2020	77
November	35.0°C8 Nov 1956	-1.1°C20 Nov 1941	62 mm26 Nov 1997	190 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1956	75
December	31.7°C3 Dec 1958	-6.7°C22 Dec 1990	98 mm23 Dec 1955	249 mm1955 · driest 4 mm in 1999	76

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

How often, not how much — every day in MONTEREY’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	11%	30%	13%	37%	13.9–17.8°C
February	15%	30%	11%	37%	14.5–18.0°C
March	17%	27%	10%	30%	14.7–18.6°C
April	20%	16%	4%	12%	15.5–18.9°C
May	21%	8%	<1%	5%	16.0–19.7°C
June	31%	4%	<1%	<1%	17.5–21.0°C
July	41%	<1%	0%	0%	18.0–21.4°C
August	55%	1%	0%	<1%	18.8–22.1°C
September	65%	3%	<1%	1%	19.7–24.5°C
October	56%	8%	2%	5%	19.4–23.0°C
November	30%	18%	6%	22%	16.2–20.4°C
December	11%	26%	9%	31%	13.8–17.7°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 69-year average. Warmest: 2015. Coolest: 1949.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5392729
NOAA station: USC00045795 · MONTEREY
Station distance: 2.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 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 3 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 is what differs

Seaside→Monterey→Carmel-by-the-Sea→Del Monte→Fort Ord Village (historical)→Pebble Beach→

Or put two places side by side: Sand City vs Seaside

Best time to visitSand City.

September

September

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Sand City runs -0.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Sand City.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Sand City runs -0.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.