King 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 King City's primary NOAA station, KING CITY.
The climate verdict for King City
Dryness leads the climate profile for King City, California, with 11.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 60°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.
- 60°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 87/100
- comfort score, above 87% of station-mapped location scores
- 11.8"
- yearly precipitation total
- 272 days
- frost-free days per growing season
King City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00044555 · King City, CA 60°F mean · 11.8" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 60°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,214
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Napa State Hosp…
- PRCP-ARID 11.8"
- SWING-NARROW 20°F
- COMF-TOP 87/100
- LOAD-HEAT 2,288 HDD
- STN-1 USC00044555
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Napa State Hospital, 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.
- Hot San Jose, CA 61°F
- King City (this station) 60°F
- Cold Newark, CA 60°F
- Near Napa State Hosp…, CA 60°F
- Near Ben Lomond, CA 60°F
Climate Living Index · King City
King City: 77/100 · grade B
King City publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for King City, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 87/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 272 days/year | 95/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 60.3°F · 7.2° from 67.5°F | 77/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 11.8 in · 23.2 from 35 in | 18/100 · F |
King City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
King City's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 69.4°F
- Coldest month
- 49.6°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 · heating-led station
Where King City sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for King City's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 24% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, King City sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 90%
- King City's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 97%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for King City is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How King City compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
King City'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 63°F (17°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 2.4" | 0.0" | 7.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 65°F (19°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 4.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 70°F (21°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| April | 74°F (23°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 1.7 |
| May | 78°F (26°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.2 |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.0 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.4 |
| August | 85°F (30°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.2 |
| September | 85°F (30°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.4 |
| October | 80°F (27°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 5.1 |
| November | 70°F (21°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 3.4 | 0.4 |
| December | 62°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 10.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in King City: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 37°F near December 19 and 86°F near August 31.
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 37°F around December 19.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 17, when 32% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 8 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 51 wet dates a year.
The widest day
October 6 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 34°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for King City.
Where King City Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 12 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 34°F between the normal high and low.
King 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
8.8 days with precipitation
9.2 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
5.2 days with precipitation
2.6 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.6 days with precipitation
2.4 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
King City's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 59% 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 19.8°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 2.5"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, December (59% 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 King City's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 51 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 11.8" between them, or roughly 0.23 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.
King 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
November 22
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 23
50% probability date
Growing Season
272 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,288
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
578
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to King 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 (60°F here).
- Albemarle, NC 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Caruthersville, MO 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Fort Cobb, OK 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Lindsay, OK 60°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (11.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Boulder, UT 11.8" · 0.0" off
- Ovando, MT 11.8" · 0.0" off
- Pinedale, WY 11.9" · 0.0" off
- Benson, AZ 11.8" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where King City's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in King City, at 2,288 degree days versus 578 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 19.8°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
King City has a long frost-free window of roughly 272 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
The calendar stays thermally compact and dry. July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, only 19.8°F apart, while the annual precipitation total remains below PlainClimate's dry threshold. The annual average is 60°F. The monthly rows show whether that limited precipitation is spread through the year or concentrated in a shorter interval.
King City's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 11.8 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
King City wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (11.8 inches).
King City 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 King City's primary station: KING CITY (USC00044555). 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 0638520). Match rule for King 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 King 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.