Tulare, California climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Tulare's center at January lows of 39°F and July highs of 97°F, a yearly mean of 64.2°F and 7.8 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Visalia (9 miles N, 303 ft), has January lows of 38°F and July highs of 94°F.
72,601 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 57° 39°
- Feb 63° 42°
- Mar 69° 45°
- Apr 75° 48°
- May 84° 55°
- Jun 92° 61°
- Jul 97° 66°
- Aug 96° 65°
- Sep 91° 60°
- Oct 80° 52°
- Nov 67° 43°
- Dec 57° 37°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Tulare's center.
What is each month like in Tulare?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Visalia high | Visalia low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57°F | 39°F | 47.5°F | 1.54 | 55°F | 38°F |
| February | 63°F | 42°F | 52.3°F | 1.30 | 61°F | 42°F |
| March | 69°F | 45°F | 57.2°F | 1.37 | 67°F | 45°F |
| April | 75°F | 48°F | 61.8°F | 0.70 | 73°F | 49°F |
| May | 84°F | 55°F | 69.4°F | 0.31 | 81°F | 55°F |
| June | 92°F | 61°F | 76.4°F | 0.08 | 89°F | 62°F |
| July | 97°F | 66°F | 81.9°F | 0.01 | 94°F | 67°F |
| August | 96°F | 65°F | 80.5°F | 0.00 | 93°F | 65°F |
| September | 91°F | 60°F | 75.7°F | 0.05 | 88°F | 60°F |
| October | 80°F | 52°F | 65.9°F | 0.47 | 78°F | 52°F |
| November | 67°F | 43°F | 54.7°F | 0.65 | 64°F | 43°F |
| December | 57°F | 37°F | 47.1°F | 1.28 | 55°F | 38°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 17.9°C, January lows of 4°C, July highs of 36°C and 197 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Tulare say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visalia | 9 mi N | 303 ft | 63.1°F | 38°F | 94°F | 10.3 | 0 | January 23 |
| CorcoranCorcoran Irrig Dist | 15 mi SW | 200 ft | 63.7°F | 38°F | 98°F | – | – | February 15 |
| Lindsay | 16 mi E | 435 ft | 62.9°F | 37°F | 96°F | 12.1 | 0 | February 20 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Tulare?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Visalia (9 miles N, 303 ft). It gets 0 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 23 in half of years and the first autumn frost before December 13. Its record high is 115°F (1925) and its record low 13°F (1913) (kept since 1898).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tulare in zone 9b (ZIP code 93274, the nearest ZIP area).
Over a year 90% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (5.4 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); August is the sunniest month (98%) and January the cloudiest (71%).
Visalia's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Tulare; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00049367; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.