Camarillo, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Camarillo's primary NOAA station, CAMARILLO AP.
The climate verdict for Camarillo
Dryness leads the climate profile for Camarillo, California, with 12.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 63°F. August is the warmest month at 70°F and December the coldest at 56°F.
- 63°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 12.0"
- precipitation, annual total
Camarillo: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00023136 · Camarillo, CA 63°F mean · 12.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-NARROW · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 63°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,557
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ San Diego Brown…
- PRCP-DRY 12.0"
- SWING-NARROW 14°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 1,551 HDD
- STN-1 USW00023136
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: San Diego Brown Fld, CA (+ 0.1 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every CA station list.
- Camarillo (this station) 63°F
- Hot Torrance, CA 63°F
- Near San Diego Brown…, CA 63°F
- Near Vista, CA 63°F
- Cold Imperial Beach…, CA 62°F
Climate Living Index · Camarillo
Camarillo: 75/100 · grade B
Camarillo publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Camarillo, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 62.5°F · 5.0° from 67.5°F | 85/100 · A |
| Summer moisture balance | 58.2°F mean dew point | 76/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 12.0 in · 23.0 from 35 in | 18/100 · F |
Camarillo · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
Camarillo's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 70.2°F
- Coldest month
- 55.8°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Camarillo sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Camarillo's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 19% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Camarillo sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 90%
- Camarillo's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 98%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Camarillo is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 68°F (20°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.9" | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| February | 68°F (20°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.9" | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| March | 69°F (20°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 2.0" | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| April | 71°F (22°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.6" | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| July | 78°F (26°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| August | 80°F (26°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| September | 80°F (26°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| October | 76°F (25°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.5" | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| November | 73°F (23°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.9" | 0.1 | 1.2 |
| December | 68°F (20°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 1.7" | 0.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Camarillo: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 43°F near December 17 and 80°F near August 30.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 43°F around December 17.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 23, when 23% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 1 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 36 wet dates a year.
The widest day
November 23 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Camarillo.
Where Camarillo Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 12 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Camarillo earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
5.6 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
5.2 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
0.4 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
1.1 days with precipitation
2.7 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
Camarillo's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 62% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 1%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows an unusually narrow 14.4°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 2.9"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, March (65% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
How Camarillo's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 36 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 12.0" between them, or roughly 0.33 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
December 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
December 31
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,551
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
643
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 58% | 6.5 | 68% | 12% |
| February | 63% | 6.4 | 57% | 17% |
| March | 66% | 6.3 | 60% | 13% |
| April | 66% | 6.1 | 61% | 15% |
| May | 72% | 5.6 | 55% | 16% |
| June | 73% | 5.1 | 71% | 8% |
| July | 75% | 4.9 | 74% | 8% |
| August | 71% | 4.6 | 77% | 7% |
| September | 65% | 5.1 | 69% | 14% |
| October | 58% | 5.6 | 68% | 9% |
| November | 52% | 6.7 | 71% | 9% |
| December | 52% | 7.0 | 68% | 12% |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Camarillo on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (63°F here).
- Grenada, MS 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Lambert, MS 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Lumberton, NC 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Mccormick, SC 63°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (12.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Kremmling, CO 12.0" · 0.0" off
- Williams, AZ 12.0" · 0.0" off
- Seligman, AZ 12.1" · 0.0" off
- Chelan, WA 12.0" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Camarillo's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Camarillo, at 1,551 degree days versus 643 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 14.4°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Camarillo. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
The calendar stays thermally compact and dry. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, only 14.4°F apart, while the annual precipitation total remains below PlainClimate's dry threshold. The annual average is 63°F. The monthly rows show whether that limited precipitation is spread through the year or concentrated in a shorter interval.
Camarillo's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 12.0 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Camarillo wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (12.0 inches).
Camarillo driest normal
August
August is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Camarillo's primary station: CAMARILLO AP (USW00023136). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 0610046). Match rule for Camarillo: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Camarillo comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.