Clovis, California climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Clovis's center at January lows of 39°F and July highs of 99°F, a yearly mean of 64.3°F and 11.2 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Fresno (4 miles SW, 333 ft), has January lows of 41°F and July highs of 98°F.
127,993 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 56° 39°
- Feb 62° 42°
- Mar 68° 45°
- Apr 75° 48°
- May 84° 54°
- Jun 93° 61°
- Jul 99° 66°
- Aug 97° 64°
- Sep 92° 60°
- Oct 80° 52°
- Nov 66° 44°
- Dec 56° 38°
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 Clovis's center.
What is each month like in Clovis?
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. | Fresno high | Fresno low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 56°F | 39°F | 47.9°F | 2.28 | 55°F | 41°F |
| February | 62°F | 42°F | 52.2°F | 1.95 | 61°F | 43°F |
| March | 68°F | 45°F | 56.8°F | 1.91 | 68°F | 47°F |
| April | 75°F | 48°F | 61.3°F | 1.02 | 74°F | 51°F |
| May | 84°F | 54°F | 69.1°F | 0.42 | 83°F | 58°F |
| June | 93°F | 61°F | 76.5°F | 0.14 | 91°F | 64°F |
| July | 99°F | 66°F | 82.3°F | 0.01 | 98°F | 69°F |
| August | 97°F | 64°F | 80.9°F | 0.01 | 97°F | 68°F |
| September | 92°F | 60°F | 75.9°F | 0.05 | 91°F | 63°F |
| October | 80°F | 52°F | 66.1°F | 0.56 | 79°F | 55°F |
| November | 66°F | 44°F | 54.9°F | 0.99 | 65°F | 45°F |
| December | 56°F | 38°F | 47.3°F | 1.88 | 55°F | 40°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 17.9°C, January lows of 4°C, July highs of 37°C and 285 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 Clovis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FresnoFresno Yosemite Int'l | 4 mi SW | 333 ft | 65.0°F | 41°F | 98°F | 11.0 | 0 | January 14 |
| FriantFriant Government Camp | 12 mi N | 410 ft | 62.5°F | 38°F | 99°F | 14.7 | 0 | March 9 |
| Auberry2 mi NW | 20 mi NE | 2,090 ft | 61.7°F | 37°F | 94°F | 25.1 | 2 | March 25 |
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 Clovis?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Fresno (4 miles SW, 333 ft). It gets 0 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 14 in half of years and the first autumn frost before December 14. Its record high is 115°F (1905) and its record low 17°F (1913), on the National Weather Service's long record for the area (kept since 1887).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Clovis in zone 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 90% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (5.4 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); August is the sunniest month (98%) and January the cloudiest (71%).
Fresno'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 Clovis; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00093193; 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 Clovis, ZIP code by ZIP code?
2 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Clovis. On NOAA's grid 93611 is the warmest (64.3°F a year) and 93612 the coolest (64.2°F), so the city is nearly uniform. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
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.