Arden-Arcade, California climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Arden-Arcade's center at January lows of 39°F and July highs of 95°F, a yearly mean of 62.7°F and 19.3 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Sacramento (9 miles SW, 15 ft), has January lows of 39°F and July highs of 93°F.
96,319 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 56° 39°
- Feb 62° 42°
- Mar 67° 45°
- Apr 73° 48°
- May 81° 53°
- Jun 89° 58°
- Jul 95° 61°
- Aug 94° 60°
- Sep 90° 58°
- Oct 79° 51°
- Nov 66° 44°
- Dec 57° 39°
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 Arden-Arcade's center.
What is each month like in Arden-Arcade?
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. | Sacramento high | Sacramento low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 56°F | 39°F | 47.8°F | 3.89 | 56°F | 39°F |
| February | 62°F | 42°F | 52.0°F | 3.69 | 61°F | 42°F |
| March | 67°F | 45°F | 56.1°F | 2.80 | 66°F | 45°F |
| April | 73°F | 48°F | 60.2°F | 1.50 | 72°F | 47°F |
| May | 81°F | 53°F | 66.9°F | 1.09 | 80°F | 52°F |
| June | 89°F | 58°F | 73.5°F | 0.21 | 88°F | 57°F |
| July | 95°F | 61°F | 77.6°F | 0.01 | 93°F | 59°F |
| August | 94°F | 60°F | 76.8°F | 0.02 | 92°F | 59°F |
| September | 90°F | 58°F | 73.6°F | 0.08 | 89°F | 57°F |
| October | 79°F | 51°F | 64.9°F | 0.90 | 79°F | 50°F |
| November | 66°F | 44°F | 54.6°F | 1.83 | 65°F | 43°F |
| December | 57°F | 39°F | 47.9°F | 3.30 | 56°F | 39°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 17.1°C, January lows of 4°C, July highs of 35°C and 491 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 Arden-Arcade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SacramentoSacramento Airport Asos | 9 mi SW | 15 ft | 61.8°F | 39°F | 93°F | 18.1 | – | February 2 |
| Sacramento Metro Airport | 13 mi NW | 23 ft | 61.2°F | 38°F | 94°F | 18.0 | – | February 22 |
| DavisDavis 2 WSW Experiment Farm | 22 mi W | 60 ft | 61.6°F | 38°F | 93°F | 19.2 | 0 | February 10 |
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 Arden-Arcade?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Sacramento (9 miles SW, 15 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Davis (22 miles W), gets 0 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after February 2 in half of years and the first autumn frost before December 2. Its record high is 115°F (1961) and its record low 17°F (1932), on the National Weather Service's long record for the area (kept since 1877).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Arden-Arcade in zone 9b across its 3 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 89% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (5.2 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); July is the sunniest month (98%) and January the cloudiest (70%).
Sacramento'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 Arden-Arcade; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00023232; 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 Arden-Arcade, ZIP code by ZIP code?
3 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Arden-Arcade. On NOAA's grid 95821 is the warmest (62.8°F a year) and 95864 the coolest (62.7°F), so the city is nearly uniform. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95821 | 9b | 62.8°F | 39°F | 95°F | 19.6 | Sacramento (10 mi) | February 2 | December 2 |
| 95825 | 9b | 62.7°F | 39°F | 95°F | 19.3 | Sacramento (8 mi) | February 2 | December 2 |
| 95864 | 9b | 62.7°F | 39°F | 95°F | 19.3 | Sacramento (8 mi) | February 2 | December 2 |
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.