Daly City, California climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Daly City's center at January lows of 45°F and July highs of 67°F, a yearly mean of 56.9°F and 25.4 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, San Francisco Oceanside (3 miles NW, 8 ft), has January lows of 46°F and July highs of 62°F.
101,418 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 57° 45°
- Feb 59° 46°
- Mar 61° 47°
- Apr 62° 48°
- May 64° 51°
- Jun 67° 52°
- Jul 67° 54°
- Aug 69° 55°
- Sep 70° 55°
- Oct 68° 53°
- Nov 62° 49°
- Dec 57° 45°
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 Daly City's center.
What is each month like in Daly 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. | San Francisco Oceanside high | San Francisco Oceanside low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57°F | 45°F | 51.1°F | 4.84 | 59°F | 46°F |
| February | 59°F | 46°F | 52.7°F | 4.88 | 60°F | 47°F |
| March | 61°F | 47°F | 54.1°F | 3.64 | 61°F | 48°F |
| April | 62°F | 48°F | 55.2°F | 1.73 | 60°F | 49°F |
| May | 64°F | 51°F | 57.2°F | 0.77 | 60°F | 51°F |
| June | 67°F | 52°F | 59.4°F | 0.19 | 61°F | 53°F |
| July | 67°F | 54°F | 60.7°F | 0.01 | 62°F | 54°F |
| August | 69°F | 55°F | 62.0°F | 0.06 | 64°F | 55°F |
| September | 70°F | 55°F | 62.3°F | 0.11 | 65°F | 55°F |
| October | 68°F | 53°F | 60.5°F | 1.15 | 66°F | 53°F |
| November | 62°F | 49°F | 55.6°F | 2.69 | 64°F | 50°F |
| December | 57°F | 45°F | 51.3°F | 5.37 | 59°F | 46°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 13.8°C, January lows of 7°C, July highs of 20°C and 646 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 Daly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Oceanside | 3 mi NW | 8 ft | 56.1°F | 46°F | 62°F | 20.6 | 0 | December 30 |
| San FranciscoSan Francisco Downtown | 5 mi NE | 150 ft | 57.7°F | 47°F | 66°F | 22.9 | – | – |
| Pacifica4 mi SSE | 8 mi S | 475 ft | 57.4°F | 45°F | 69°F | 31.9 | 0 | January 11 |
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 Daly City?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, San Francisco Oceanside (3 miles NW, 8 ft). It gets 0 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after December 30 in half of years and the first autumn frost before December 25.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Daly City in zone 10a across its 2 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.7 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); June is the sunniest month (84%) and December the cloudiest (74%).
San Francisco Oceanside'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 Daly City; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00047767; 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 Daly City, ZIP code by ZIP code?
2 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Daly City. On NOAA's grid 94014 is the warmest (57.2°F a year) and 94015 the coolest (56.9°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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94014 | 10a | 57.2°F | 43°F | 72°F | 26.7 | San Francisco Oceanside (4 mi) | December 30 | December 25 |
| 94015 | 10a | 56.9°F | 45°F | 67°F | 25.4 | San Francisco Oceanside (3 mi) | December 30 | December 25 |
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.