Friant Government Camp, 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 Friant Government Camp's primary NOAA station, FRIANT GOVERNMENT CAMP.
The climate verdict for Friant Government Camp
Dryness leads the climate profile for Friant Government Camp, California, with 14.7 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 63°F. It scores 87/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 87% of them.
- 63°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 87/100
- comfort score, above 87% of station-mapped location scores
- 14.7"
- precipitation, annual total
- 267 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Friant Government Camp: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00043261 · Friant Government Camp, CA 63°F mean · 14.7" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 63°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,557
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Antioch Pumping…
- PRCP-DRY 14.7"
- SWING-MID 34°F
- COMF-TOP 87/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00043261
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Antioch Pumping Plt, CA (+ 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.
- Friant Governme… (this station) 63°F
- Hot Carlsbad Palomar, CA 63°F
- Near Antioch Pumping…, CA 63°F
- Near Camarillo, CA 63°F
- Near Camp Pardee, CA 63°F
Climate Living Index · Friant Government Camp
Friant Government Camp: 73/100 · grade B
Friant Government Camp publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Friant Government Camp, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 87/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 267 days/year | 94/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 62.5°F · 5.0° from 67.5°F | 85/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 104 calendar days | 74/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 14.7 in · 20.3 from 35 in | 27/100 · F |
Friant Government Camp · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Friant Government Camp is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa
Coldest-month mean 46.4°F and warmest-month mean 80.2°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Csa). Class Csa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Csa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 80.2°F
- Coldest month
- 46.4°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 Friant Government Camp sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Friant Government Camp's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 19% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Friant Government Camp sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 84%
- Friant Government Camp's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Friant Government Camp is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Friant Government Camp compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Friant Government Camp's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
87 Top 13% score exceeds 87% 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
Friant Government Camp's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 67 complete annual observations from 1943 to 2025, FRIANT GOVERNMENT CAMP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.20°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Friant Government Camp primary station fitted change +0.20 °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 | 56°F (13°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 3.1" | 0.0" | 4.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 61°F (16°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 66°F (19°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| April | 73°F (23°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 1.6 |
| May | 83°F (28°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.9 |
| June | 92°F (33°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.9 |
| July | 99°F (37°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.8 |
| August | 98°F (37°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.6 |
| September | 92°F (33°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.4 |
| October | 80°F (27°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.7 |
| November | 66°F (19°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 1.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 56°F (13°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 6.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Friant Government Camp runs from a mild 36°F around December 17 to 100°F at the peak near July 21, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 10 through September 21, covering 104 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 6 to November 7.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
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 36°F around December 17.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 15, when 33% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 4 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 56 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 16 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 38°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Friant Government Camp.
Where Friant Government Camp Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 104 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 38°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Friant Government Camp 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
10.2 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
8.1 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
3.1 days with precipitation
0.9 days with precipitation
0.4 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
Friant Government Camp'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 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 a 33.8°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 3.1"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- January, March, December (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.
How Friant Government Camp's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 56 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 14.7" between them, or roughly 0.26 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Friant Government Camp'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 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
267 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,596
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,694
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Friant Government Camp 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 (63°F here).
- Grenada, MS 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Lambert, MS 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Lumberton, NC 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Mccormick, SC 63°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (14.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Plentywood, MT 14.7" · 0.0" off
- Nogales, AZ 14.6" · 0.0" off
- Baker, MT 14.7" · 0.1" off
- Newkirk, NM 14.6" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Friant Government Camp's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 14.7 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.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Friant Government Camp's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 33.8°F. The annual average is 63°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Friant Government Camp's normal, at 2,596 and 1,694 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
Friant Government Camp has a long frost-free window of roughly 267 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Friant Government Camp wettest normal
January
January concentrates the scarce annual total (14.7 inches).
Friant Government Camp driest normal
July
July 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 Friant Government Camp's primary station: FRIANT GOVERNMENT CAMP (USC00043261). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Friant Government Camp; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Friant Government Camp 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.