El Dorado Hills, California climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put El Dorado Hills's center at January lows of 39°F and July highs of 95°F, a yearly mean of 61.6°F and 28.7 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Placerville (12 miles E, 1,850 ft), has January lows of 34°F and July highs of 94°F.
50,553 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 56° 39°
- Feb 60° 41°
- Mar 64° 43°
- Apr 70° 46°
- May 79° 51°
- Jun 88° 57°
- Jul 95° 61°
- Aug 94° 61°
- Sep 88° 58°
- Oct 78° 51°
- Nov 64° 43°
- 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 El Dorado Hills's center.
What is each month like in El Dorado Hills?
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. | Placerville high | Placerville low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 56°F | 39°F | 47.3°F | 5.64 | 57°F | 34°F |
| February | 60°F | 41°F | 50.3°F | 5.17 | 60°F | 37°F |
| March | 64°F | 43°F | 53.7°F | 4.38 | 63°F | 40°F |
| April | 70°F | 46°F | 57.8°F | 2.44 | 67°F | 42°F |
| May | 79°F | 51°F | 64.8°F | 1.38 | 76°F | 48°F |
| June | 88°F | 57°F | 72.3°F | 0.28 | 86°F | 55°F |
| July | 95°F | 61°F | 78.0°F | 0.01 | 94°F | 61°F |
| August | 94°F | 61°F | 77.0°F | 0.03 | 93°F | 59°F |
| September | 88°F | 58°F | 73.1°F | 0.21 | 88°F | 56°F |
| October | 78°F | 51°F | 64.2°F | 1.27 | 77°F | 48°F |
| November | 64°F | 43°F | 53.7°F | 2.89 | 65°F | 40°F |
| December | 56°F | 38°F | 46.9°F | 5.00 | 56°F | 34°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.4°C, January lows of 4°C, July highs of 35°C and 729 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 El Dorado Hills 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placerville | 12 mi E | 1,850 ft | 59.8°F | 34°F | 94°F | – | – | March 31 |
| Auburn | 16 mi N | 1,292 ft | 61.2°F | 38°F | 93°F | 36.1 | – | February 25 |
| GeorgetownGeorgetown Ranger Station | 22 mi NE | 3,001 ft | 58.2°F | 36°F | 91°F | 50.6 | – | April 12 |
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 El Dorado Hills?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Placerville (12 miles E, 1,850 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Sacramento (5 mi ESE) (22 miles away), gets 0 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 31 in half of years and the first autumn frost before November 21. Its record high is 115°F (1996) and its record low 8°F (1937) (kept since 1900).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts El Dorado Hills in zone 9b (ZIP code 95762).
Over a year 86% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (5.2 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); August is the sunniest month (97%) and December the cloudiest (70%).
Placerville'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 El Dorado Hills; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00046960; 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 El Dorado Hills, ZIP code by ZIP code?
One ZIP code area lies wholly or partly in El Dorado Hills. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95762 | 9b | 61.6°F | 39°F | 95°F | 28.7 | Placerville (13 mi) | March 31 | November 21 |
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.