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

What is the weather like in Victorville each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 98°F; December the coldest, with normal lows of 33°F. The most precipitation falls in February (1.27 in), the least in June (0.04 in).

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

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When is the best weather to visit Victorville?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, May has the fewest days with rain (1).

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.

When is the last frost in Victorville?

In Victorville, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 18 in half of years and after April 12 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 11 in half of years and before October 27 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

March 181 year in 10 after April 12; 9 in 10 after February 23

First autumn frost, half of years before

November 111 year in 10 before October 27; 9 in 10 before November 26

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 233 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 273 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 22 in half of springs and before November 24 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Victorville in zone 8b across its 3 ZIP code areas (8b in 92394, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Victorville's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 20°F (25 complete years).

Frost dates for every NOAA station in California · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each Victorville ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Victorville's 3 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Victorville?

In a normal year in Victorville, 119 days a year reach 90°F (42 of them 100°F or more), 54 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 25 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

119a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

42a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

54a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

fewer than 1high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

25a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1917) is 116°F, on July 10, 2002; the lowest is −1°F, on January 17, 1949.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 2010, with 14.34 in; the snowiest season is 1973–74, with 17.0 inches.

How sunny is Victorville?

Over a year 92% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Victorville, 5.8 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (96%) and December the cloudiest (85%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 3rd (with 7 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Victorville need?

A normal year in Victorville brings 2,869 heating degree days, 47% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,767 cooling degree days, 95% more than the median (908). Five months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 4,932 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Victorville been warmer than normal lately?

Over 68 complete years from 1941 to 2020, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 5.6°F per century (+0.31°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Victorville share this climate record?

5 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.

• Apple Valley, CAalso near: Hesperia (8 mi, 63.6°F a year); Lake Arrowhead (20 mi, 51.1°F a year)75,029 people · 5 mi E
• Adelanto, CA37,941 people · 9 mi NW
• Spring Valley Lake, CA10,098 people · 3 mi SE
• Silver Lakes, CA5,789 people · 15 mi N
• Mountain View Acres, CA3,155 people · 4 mi SW

Nearby and next

• Victorville in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• California climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Hesperia, CA7 miles from this station, 63.6°F a year
• El Mirage, CA20 miles from this station, 61.2°F a year
• Lake Arrowhead, CA21 miles from this station, 51.1°F a year
• Wrightwood, CA23 miles from this station, 50.0°F a year
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