Cathedral City, California climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Cathedral City's center at January lows of 45°F and July highs of 106°F, a yearly mean of 73.1°F and 4.0 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Palm Springs (2 miles W, 421 ft), has January lows of 48°F and July highs of 109°F.
52,517 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 70° 45°
- Feb 72° 47°
- Mar 79° 52°
- Apr 85° 57°
- May 92° 63°
- Jun 101° 70°
- Jul 106° 77°
- Aug 106° 76°
- Sep 100° 70°
- Oct 89° 60°
- Nov 77° 50°
- Dec 68° 43°
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 Cathedral City's center.
What is each month like in Cathedral City?
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. | Palm Springs high | Palm Springs low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 70°F | 45°F | 57.1°F | 0.98 | 71°F | 48°F |
| February | 72°F | 47°F | 59.7°F | 0.85 | 74°F | 50°F |
| March | 79°F | 52°F | 65.1°F | 0.46 | 81°F | 54°F |
| April | 85°F | 57°F | 70.7°F | 0.09 | 87°F | 59°F |
| May | 92°F | 63°F | 77.7°F | 0.02 | 95°F | 66°F |
| June | 101°F | 70°F | 85.7°F | 0.00 | 104°F | 73°F |
| July | 106°F | 77°F | 91.2°F | 0.13 | 109°F | 79°F |
| August | 106°F | 76°F | 90.8°F | 0.16 | 108°F | 80°F |
| September | 100°F | 70°F | 85.1°F | 0.20 | 102°F | 74°F |
| October | 89°F | 60°F | 74.8°F | 0.17 | 91°F | 65°F |
| November | 77°F | 50°F | 63.6°F | 0.25 | 79°F | 53°F |
| December | 68°F | 43°F | 55.4°F | 0.66 | 69°F | 46°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 22.8°C, January lows of 7°C, July highs of 41°C and 101 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 Cathedral City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palm SpringsPalm Springs Asos | 2 mi W | 421 ft | 75.6°F | 48°F | 109°F | 4.6 | – | January 9 |
| Idyllwild Fire Dept | 15 mi W | 5,380 ft | 54.5°F | 31°F | 85°F | 24.4 | 31 | May 16 |
| IndioIndio Fire Station | 17 mi SE | -21 ft | 75.9°F | 47°F | 106°F | 2.9 | 0 | December 31 |
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 Cathedral City?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Palm Springs (2 miles W, 421 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Idyllwild Fire Dept (15 miles W), gets 31 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 9 in half of years and the first autumn frost before January 9. Its record high is 124°F (2024) and its record low 19°F (1937), on the National Weather Service's long record for the area (kept since 1922).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cathedral City in zone 10a across its 2 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 91% 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); June is the sunniest month (96%) and February the cloudiest (84%).
Palm Springs'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 Cathedral City; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00093138; 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 Cathedral City, ZIP code by ZIP code?
2 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Cathedral City. On NOAA's grid 92276 is the warmest (73.8°F a year) and 92234 the coolest (73.3°F), a spread of 0.5°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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92234 | 10a | 73.3°F | 45°F | 106°F | 3.9 | Palm Springs (2 mi) | January 9 | January 9 |
| 92276 | 10a | 73.8°F | 45°F | 107°F | 3.8 | Palm Springs (7 mi) | January 9 | January 9 |
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.