Los Banos Det Resv, 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 Los Banos Det Resv's primary NOAA station, LOS BANOS DET RESV.
The climate verdict for Los Banos Det Resv
Dryness leads the climate profile for Los Banos Det Resv, California, with 8.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 64°F. It scores 80/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 76% of them.
- 64°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 80/100
- comfort score, above 76% of station-mapped location scores
- 8.0"
- yearly precipitation total
- 335 days
- frost-free growing season
Los Banos Det Resv: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00045120 · Los Banos Det Resv, CA 64°F mean · 8.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 64°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aiken
- PRCP-ARID 8.0"
- SWING-MID 33°F
- COMF-TOP 80/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00045120
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Aiken, SC (+ 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.
- Los Banos Det R… (this station) 64°F
- Hot Cades, SC 64°F
- Near Aiken, SC 64°F
- Near Albany, TX 64°F
- Near Atlantic Beach…, NC 64°F
Climate Living Index · Los Banos Det Resv
Los Banos Det Resv: 73/100 · grade B
Los Banos Det Resv publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Los Banos Det Resv, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 80/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 335 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 64.1°F · 3.4° from 67.5°F | 90/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 89 calendar days | 79/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 8.0 in · 27.0 from 35 in | 7/100 · F |
Los Banos Det Resv · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Los Banos Det Resv'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
- 80.4°F
- Coldest month
- 47.8°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 Los Banos Det Resv sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Los Banos Det Resv's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 14% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Los Banos Det Resv sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 97%
- Los Banos Det Resv's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 87%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Los Banos Det Resv is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Los Banos Det Resv compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Los Banos Det Resv's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
80 Top 24% score exceeds 76% 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 | 56°F (13°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 3.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 61°F (16°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 67°F (20°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 73°F (23°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| May | 81°F (27°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.5 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.3 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.1 |
| August | 94°F (35°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.8 |
| September | 90°F (32°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 15.4 |
| October | 79°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.9 |
| November | 66°F (19°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 56°F (13°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 4.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Los Banos Det Resv runs from a mild 39°F around December 22 to 96°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 19 through September 15, covering 89 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 30 to November 4.
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 39°F around December 22.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is January 5, when 41% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 13 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 60 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 17 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Los Banos Det Resv.
Where Los Banos Det Resv Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 8 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 89 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Los Banos Det Resv 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
13.0 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
7.6 days with precipitation
4.8 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
0.7 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.4 days with precipitation
0.4 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
Los Banos Det Resv's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 58% 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 32.6°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 1.8"
- Driest month
- July, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- January, February, December (58% 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.
Los Banos Det Resv is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 60 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 17% of the calendar, and they carry 8.0" between them. At roughly 0.13 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is January at about 13 wet days; the driest is July at about 0.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Los Banos Det Resv'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 14
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 13
50% probability date
Growing Season
335 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,186
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,878
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Los Banos Det Resv 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 (64°F here).
- Aiken, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Albany, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Clarks Hill, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Greensboro, AL 64°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (8.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Castle Dale, UT 8.0" · 0.0" off
- Delta, UT 8.0" · 0.0" off
- Bloomfield, NM 8.1" · 0.0" off
- Shoshoni, WY 8.0" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Los Banos Det Resv's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 8.0 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 Los Banos Det Resv's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 32.6°F. The annual average is 64°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Los Banos Det Resv's normal, at 2,186 and 1,878 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.
Los Banos Det Resv has a long frost-free window of roughly 335 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Los Banos Det Resv wettest normal
January
January concentrates the scarce annual total (8.0 inches).
Los Banos Det Resv 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 Los Banos Det Resv's primary station: LOS BANOS DET RESV (USC00045120). 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 Los Banos Det Resv; 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 Los Banos Det Resv 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.