Apple Valley, California climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Apple Valley's center at January lows of 35°F and July highs of 97°F, a yearly mean of 62.5°F and 5.2 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Victorville (5 miles W, 2,880 ft), has January lows of 33°F and July highs of 98°F.
75,029 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 60° 35°
- Feb 62° 37°
- Mar 67° 41°
- Apr 73° 45°
- May 81° 51°
- Jun 91° 58°
- Jul 97° 65°
- Aug 97° 64°
- Sep 90° 59°
- Oct 79° 49°
- Nov 67° 40°
- Dec 58° 34°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Apple Valley's center.
What is each month like in Apple Valley?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Victorville high | Victorville low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60°F | 35°F | 47.6°F | 0.92 | 58°F | 33°F |
| February | 62°F | 37°F | 49.6°F | 1.07 | 61°F | 36°F |
| March | 67°F | 41°F | 54.2°F | 0.76 | 67°F | 40°F |
| April | 73°F | 45°F | 58.9°F | 0.32 | 73°F | 44°F |
| May | 81°F | 51°F | 65.9°F | 0.13 | 81°F | 51°F |
| June | 91°F | 58°F | 74.5°F | 0.01 | 91°F | 58°F |
| July | 97°F | 65°F | 80.9°F | 0.18 | 98°F | 64°F |
| August | 97°F | 64°F | 80.5°F | 0.09 | 97°F | 63°F |
| September | 90°F | 59°F | 74.4°F | 0.15 | 91°F | 58°F |
| October | 79°F | 49°F | 64.1°F | 0.20 | 79°F | 47°F |
| November | 67°F | 40°F | 53.4°F | 0.34 | 67°F | 38°F |
| December | 58°F | 34°F | 46.1°F | 0.98 | 57°F | 33°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.9°C, January lows of 2°C, July highs of 36°C and 131 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Apple Valley say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victorville | 5 mi W | 2,880 ft | 61.9°F | 33°F | 98°F | 5.6 | 0 | March 18 |
| Hesperia2 mi E | 8 mi S | 3,055 ft | 63.6°F | 37°F | 97°F | 7.8 | – | February 28 |
| Lake Arrowhead | 20 mi S | 5,205 ft | 51.1°F | 29°F | 81°F | 37.7 | 22 | May 5 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Apple Valley?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Victorville (5 miles W, 2,880 ft). It gets 0 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 18 in half of years and the first autumn frost before November 11. Its record high is 116°F (2002) and its record low −1°F (1949) (kept since 1917).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Apple Valley in zone 8b across its 2 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 92% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (5.8 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); August is the sunniest month (96%) and December the cloudiest (85%).
Victorville's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Apple Valley; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00049325; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Apple Valley, ZIP code by ZIP code?
2 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Apple Valley. On NOAA's grid 92307 is the warmest (62.6°F a year) and 92308 the coolest (61.4°F), a spread of 1.2°F. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92307 | 8b | 62.6°F | 36°F | 97°F | 5.7 | Victorville (10 mi) | March 18 | November 11 |
| 92308 | 8b | 61.4°F | 35°F | 95°F | 7.3 | Hesperia (6 mi) | February 28 | December 1 |
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.