Los Angeles, California climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Los Angeles each month?

August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 84°F; December the coldest, with normal lows of 48°F. The most precipitation falls in February (3.64 in), the least in August (0.00 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

When is the best weather to visit Los Angeles?

Every month's normal high in Los Angeles falls between 65°F and 85°F.

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

What hardiness zone is each Los Angeles ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Los Angeles's 114 ZIP code areas run from zone 9b to 11a: 40 in 10a, 69 in 10b, 3 in 11a and 2 in 9b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Los Angeles?

In a normal year in Los Angeles, 26 days a year reach 90°F (2 of them 100°F or more), nights almost never fall to freezing and 34 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

26a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

2a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

fewer than 1a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

fewer than 1high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

34a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1877) is 113°F, on September 27, 2010; the lowest is 28°F, on January 7, 1913.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 1884, with 40.29 in.

How sunny is Los Angeles?

Over a year 90% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Los Angeles, 5.7 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (97%) and February the cloudiest (82%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 21st (with 17 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Los Angeles need?

A normal year in Los Angeles brings 1,005 heating degree days, 81% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,296 cooling degree days, 43% more than the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 5,770 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Los Angeles been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 65.7°F, 0.1°F below the 1991-2020 normal of 65.8°F. 1 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 98 complete years from 1909 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.1°F per century (+0.11°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Los Angeles share this climate record?

11 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• East Los Angeles, CAalso near: San Gabriel (5 mi, 66.0°F a year); Pasadena (8 mi, 66.0°F a year)114,617 people · 4 mi E
• South Gate, CAalso near: Hawthorne (8 mi, 64.5°F a year); Long Beach (10 mi, 64.9°F a year)90,805 people · 8 mi S
• Florence-Graham, CAalso near: Hawthorne (6 mi, 64.5°F a year); Culver City (10 mi, 63.7°F a year)61,723 people · 6 mi S
• Huntington Park, CAalso near: Hawthorne (8 mi, 64.5°F a year); San Gabriel (10 mi, 66.0°F a year)52,166 people · 5 mi S
• Bell Gardens, CA37,565 people · 8 mi SE
• Bell, CA31,930 people · 6 mi SE
• Maywood, CA23,838 people · 5 mi SE
• Cudahy, CA21,694 people · 7 mi SE
• Walnut Park, CA15,446 people · 6 mi S
• Commerce, CA11,882 people · 6 mi SE
• Vernon, CA211 people · 4 mi S

What do Los Angeles's other NOAA stations record?

One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Los Angeles. This page uses Los Angeles Downtown USC Campus; the other differs by site and elevation:

Nearby and next

• Los Angeles in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• California climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• San Gabriel, CA8 miles from this station, 66.0°F a year
• Pasadena, CA9 miles from this station, 66.0°F a year
• Hawthorne, CA11 miles from this station, 64.5°F a year
• Culver City, CA11 miles from this station, 63.7°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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