SO Entrance Yosemite National Park, 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 SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's primary NOAA station, SO ENTRANCE YOSEMITE NP.
The climate verdict for SO Entrance Yosemite National Park
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park, California has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 48°F. Its climate comfort score of 64/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 49% of station-mapped location scores.
- 48°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 64/100
- comfort score, above 49% of station-mapped location scores
- 37.2"
- yearly precipitation total
- 139 days
- growing season, frost-free days
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00048380 · SO Entrance Yosemite National Park, CA 48°F mean · 37.2" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #2,264
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Luna Ranger Sta…
- PRCP-MID 37.2"
- SWING-MID 30°F
- COMF-MID 64/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,225 HDD
- STN-1 USC00048380
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Luna Ranger Station, NM ( -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.
- Hot Quemado, NM 49°F
- SO Entrance Yos… (this station) 48°F
- Cold Tolt S Fork Rsvr, WA 48°F
- Near Luna Ranger Sta…, NM 48°F
- Near Lake Spaulding, CA 48°F
Climate Living Index · SO Entrance Yosemite National Park
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park: 43/100 · grade D
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for SO Entrance Yosemite National Park, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 64/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 37.2 in · 2.2 from 35 in | 91/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 48.3°F · 19.2° from 67.5°F | 33/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 169 calendar days | 33/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 139 days/year | 18/100 · F |
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 35.1°F and warmest-month mean 65.4°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
- 65.4°F
- Coldest month
- 35.1°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 SO Entrance Yosemite National Park sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 33rd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 52nd percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 90%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for SO Entrance Yosemite National Park is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How SO Entrance Yosemite National Park compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
64 49th percentile score exceeds 49% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 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
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 37 complete annual observations from 1946 to 2016, SO ENTRANCE YOSEMITE NP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.12°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- SO Entrance Yosemite National Park primary station fitted change +0.12 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 7.6" | 27.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 46°F (8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 6.7" | 24.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 5.2" | 24.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 3.4" | 19.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 63°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.9" | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| June | 73°F (23°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.5" | 1.6 | 0.3 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 0.5" | 1.2 | 0.3 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 2.2" | 7.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 53°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 3.3" | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 5.6" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 23, short of 90°F on every date, while 169 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 26°F near December 16.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 24, then returns to freezing around November 8, covering 169 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 29, when 34% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 5 at 3%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 63 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 24 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for SO Entrance Yosemite National Park.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
9.4 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
1.2 days with precipitation
0.8 days with precipitation
0.8 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 53% 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 a 30.3°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 7.6"
- Driest month
- August, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- January, February, December (53% 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 SO Entrance Yosemite National Park, it arrives in quantity
37.2" of precipitation falls across only about 62 wet days here, averaging 0.60 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 62 a year, 17% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.60 inches
- Most wet days
- March, about 10
- Fewest wet days
- July, about 1
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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 24
50% probability date
Growing Season
139 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,225
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
152
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to SO Entrance Yosemite National Park 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 (48°F here).
- Albin, WY 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Albion, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Angola, IN 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Beverly, MA 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (37.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Gaylord, MI 37.2" · 0.0" off
- Honeoye, NY 37.2" · 0.0" off
- Goliad, TX 37.2" · 0.0" off
- Wallace, ID 37.2" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,225 annual heating degree days against 152 for cooling. Its 30.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 139 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 30.3°F. The annual average is 48°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's 37.2 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from SO Entrance Yosemite National Park'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 SO Entrance Yosemite National Park, 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 SO Entrance Yosemite National Park's primary station: SO ENTRANCE YOSEMITE NP (USC00048380). 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 SO Entrance Yosemite National Park; 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 SO Entrance Yosemite National Park 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.