Culver City, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Culver City's primary NOAA station, CULVER CITY.
The climate verdict for Culver City
Dryness leads the climate profile for Culver City, California, with 14.1 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 64°F. It scores 88/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 89% of them.
- 64°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 88/100
- comfort score, above 89% of station-mapped location scores
- 14.1"
- precipitation, annual total
Culver City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00042214 · Culver City, CA 64°F mean · 14.1" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 64°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,832
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Abilene
- PRCP-DRY 14.1"
- SWING-NARROW 15°F
- COMF-TOP 88/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00042214
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Abilene, TX (+ 0 °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.
- Culver City (this station) 64°F
- Hot Bonita, TX 64°F
- Near Abilene, TX 64°F
- Near Anson, TX 64°F
- Near Bessemer, AL 64°F
Climate Living Index · Culver City
Culver City: 80/100 · grade B
Culver City publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Culver City, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 88/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 63.7°F · 3.8° from 67.5°F | 89/100 · A |
| Precipitation balance | 14.1 in · 20.9 from 35 in | 25/100 · F |
Culver City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Culver City is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 56.6°F and warmest-month mean 71.3°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 71.3°F
- Coldest month
- 56.6°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 · balanced station
Where Culver City sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Culver City's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 15% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Culver City sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 85%
- Culver City'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 Culver City is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Culver City compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Culver City's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
88 Top 11% score exceeds 89% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Culver City's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 34 complete annual observations from 1944 to 2025, CULVER CITY warmed at a fitted rate of 0.29°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Culver City primary station fitted change +0.29 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 67°F (19°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 67°F (19°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 68°F (20°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| April | 71°F (22°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| July | 78°F (26°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.9 |
| September | 78°F (26°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| October | 76°F (24°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| November | 71°F (21°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| December | 66°F (19°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Culver City: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 47°F near December 16 and 79°F near August 24.
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 47°F around December 16.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 17, when 20% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 18 at 0%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 29 wet dates a year.
The widest day
November 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 19°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Culver City.
Where Culver City Stands Nationally
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 19°F.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 14 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Culver City earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
5.9 days with precipitation
5.7 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
0.9 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
0.0 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
2.5 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
Culver City's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 65% 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 14.7°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 3.5"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, December (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.
When it rains in Culver City, it arrives in quantity
14.1" of precipitation falls across only about 29 wet days here, averaging 0.49 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 29 a year, 8% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.49 inches
- Most wet days
- January, about 6
- Fewest wet days
- August, about 0
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Culver City's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,240
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
795
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Culver City 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 (64°F here).
- Abilene, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Anson, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Bessemer, AL 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Breckenridge, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (14.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Alder, MT 14.1" · 0.0" off
- Medicine Lake, MT 14.1" · 0.0" off
- Condon, OR 14.1" · 0.0" off
- Maxwell, NM 14.1" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Culver City's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · low swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 14.1 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
The calendar stays thermally compact and dry. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, only 14.7°F apart, while the annual precipitation total remains below PlainClimate's dry threshold. The annual average is 64°F. The monthly rows show whether that limited precipitation is spread through the year or concentrated in a shorter interval.
Culver City combines a compact 14.7°F annual temperature range with meaningful demand on both sides of the thermostat: 1,240 heating and 795 cooling degree days. The balance matters more here than either annual total in isolation.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Culver City. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
Culver City wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (14.1 inches).
Culver City 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 Culver City's primary station: CULVER CITY (USC00042214). 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 0617568). Match rule for Culver City: 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 Culver City 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.