Fort Bragg, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Fort Bragg's primary NOAA station, FT BRAGG 5 N.
The climate verdict for Fort Bragg
A compact 11.7°F seasonal swing gives Fort Bragg, California a steadier-than-extreme annual shape. NOAA reports an annual average of 52°F. It scores 77/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 70% of them.
- 52°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 77/100
- comfort score, above 70% of station-mapped location scores
- 43.2"
- annual precipitation
- 274 days
- frost-free growing season
Fort Bragg: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00043161 · Fort Bragg, CA 52°F mean · 43.2" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,225
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Astoria
- PRCP-MID 43.2"
- SWING-NARROW 12°F
- COMF-TOP 77/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,908 HDD
- STN-1 USC00043161
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Astoria, OR ( -0.1 °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.
- Fort Bragg (this station) 52°F
- Hot Fort Clatsop Na…, OR 52°F
- Near Seaside, OR 52°F
- Near Otis, OR 52°F
- Cold Astoria, OR 51°F
Climate Living Index · Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg: 78/100 · grade B
Fort Bragg publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Fort Bragg, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 77/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 274 days/year | 96/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Precipitation balance | 43.2 in · 8.2 from 35 in | 71/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.5°F · 16.0° from 67.5°F | 47/100 · D |
Fort Bragg · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Fort Bragg is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 45.7°F and warmest-month mean 57.4°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
- 57.4°F
- Coldest month
- 45.7°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 · heating-led station
Where Fort Bragg sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Fort Bragg's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 47th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 65th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 99%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Fort Bragg is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Fort Bragg compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Fort Bragg's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
77 Top 30% score exceeds 70% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Fort Bragg's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 54 complete annual observations from 1937 to 2025, FT BRAGG 5 N warmed at a fitted rate of 0.13°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Fort Bragg primary station fitted change +0.13 °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 | 52°F (11°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 7.7" | 0.0" | 3.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 54°F (12°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 7.3" | 0.0" | 2.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 6.4" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 60°F (16°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 63°F (17°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 65°F (18°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 65°F (18°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 65°F (18°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 62°F (16°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 52°F (11°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 8.7" | 0.0" | 3.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Fort Bragg: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 40°F near December 17 and 65°F near July 25.
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 40°F around December 17.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is December 13, when 54% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 6 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 111 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 4 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 16°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Fort Bragg.
Where Fort Bragg Stands Nationally
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 16°F.
Fort Bragg earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
15.6 days with precipitation
13.8 days with precipitation
14.8 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
2.7 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
6.7 days with precipitation
13.3 days with precipitation
16.7 days with precipitation
Fort Bragg's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 55% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 2%. 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 11.7°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 8.7"
- Driest month
- July, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, February (55% 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 Fort Bragg, it arrives in quantity
43.2" of precipitation falls across only about 111 wet days here, averaging 0.39 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 111 a year, 30% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.39 inches
- Most wet days
- December, about 17
- Fewest wet days
- July, about 2
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.
Fort Bragg'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
December 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
274 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,908
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
4
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Fort Bragg 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 (52°F here).
- Baileyville, KS 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Bluefield, WV 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Caldwell, OH 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Centralia, WA 52°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (43.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Steubenville, OH 43.2" · 0.0" off
- California, MO 43.1" · 0.0" off
- Muskogee, OK 43.1" · 0.0" off
- Oswayo, PA 43.1" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Fort Bragg's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Fort Bragg, at 4,908 degree days versus 4 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 11.7°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
The frost-free window extends for about 274 days. That is a long calendar measure, but it is not a forecast and does not combine heat, rainfall, soil, or local elevation into a planting recommendation.
Temperature varies within a narrow 11.7°F band across the normal year. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 52°F. Monthly rows still matter, but they refine a steady profile rather than reveal two climatic extremes.
Fort Bragg's 43.2 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Fort Bragg's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Fort Bragg, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Fort Bragg's primary station: FT BRAGG 5 N (USC00043161). 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 0625058). Match rule for Fort Bragg: 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 Fort Bragg 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.