Visalia, California climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Visalia's normal year runs from 38°F December nights to 94°F July afternoons, with 10.3 inches of precipitation and less than an inch of snow (0.1 in) a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 17.3°C, December lows of 3°C, July highs of 34°C, 262 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationVisalia
- Station IDUSC00049367
- Location36.33°N 119.30°W
- Elevation303 ft (92 m)
- Population146,271
On October 22, the normal high in Visalia is 75°F and the normal low 51°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 7%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Visalia.
- Jan 55° 38°
- Feb 61° 42°
- Mar 67° 45°
- Apr 73° 49°
- May 81° 55°
- Jun 89° 62°
- Jul 94° 67°
- Aug 93° 65°
- Sep 88° 60°
- Oct 78° 52°
- Nov 64° 43°
- Dec 55° 38°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Visalia each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 94°F; December the coldest, with normal lows of 38°F. The most precipitation falls in January (1.96 in), the least in July (0.00 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55°F | 38°F | 46.9°F | 1.96 | 8 | <1 | 3 | 10 h |
| February | 61°F | 42°F | 51.4°F | 1.64 | 7 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 67°F | 45°F | 56.2°F | 1.82 | 7 | <1 | <1 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 73°F | 49°F | 60.6°F | 0.97 | 4 | 1 | <1 | 13 h |
| May | 81°F | 55°F | 68.0°F | 0.36 | 2 | 6 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 89°F | 62°F | 75.1°F | 0.13 | 1 | 16 | <1 | 14 h 40 min |
| July | 94°F | 67°F | 80.2°F | 0.00 | <1 | 27 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| August | 93°F | 65°F | 79.0°F | 0.00 | <1 | 26 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| September | 88°F | 60°F | 74.2°F | 0.07 | <1 | 16 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 78°F | 52°F | 65.1°F | 0.55 | 2 | 3 | <1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 64°F | 43°F | 53.9°F | 0.99 | 4 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 55°F | 38°F | 46.6°F | 1.83 | 6 | <1 | 5 | 9 h 40 min |
| Year (annual) | 75°F | 51°F | 63.1°F | 10.32 | 40 | 95 | 9 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C | 4°C | 8.3°C | 50 mm |
| February | 16°C | 5°C | 10.8°C | 42 mm |
| March | 19°C | 7°C | 13.4°C | 46 mm |
| April | 23°C | 9°C | 15.9°C | 25 mm |
| May | 27°C | 13°C | 20.0°C | 9 mm |
| June | 32°C | 16°C | 23.9°C | 3 mm |
| July | 34°C | 19°C | 26.8°C | 0 mm |
| August | 34°C | 18°C | 26.1°C | 0 mm |
| September | 31°C | 16°C | 23.4°C | 2 mm |
| October | 25°C | 11°C | 18.4°C | 14 mm |
| November | 18°C | 6°C | 12.2°C | 25 mm |
| December | 13°C | 3°C | 8.1°C | 46 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00049367; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Visalia?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May and October. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (2).
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.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00049367.
When is the last frost in Visalia?
In Visalia, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 23 in half of years and after February 27 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before December 13 in half of years and before November 27 in one year in ten. A night at 32°F or colder comes at all in 93% of years here (NOAA).
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- January 231 year in 10 after February 27; 9 in 10 after December 29
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- December 131 year in 10 before November 27; 9 in 10 before January 8
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 328 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 364 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after January 2 in half of springs and before December 25 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Visalia in zone 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas (9b in 93291, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Visalia's NOAA station is in zone 9b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 29°F (16 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in California · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00049367; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
What hardiness zone is each Visalia ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Visalia's 2 ZIP code areas are all in zone 9b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Visalia?
In a normal year in Visalia, 95 days a year reach 90°F (11 of them 100°F or more), 9 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 40 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 95a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 11a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 9a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 40a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1898) is 115°F, on July 18, 1925; the lowest is 13°F, on January 5, 1913.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1998, with 19.94 in; the snowiest season is 1998–99, with 2.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00049367; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00049367. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Visalia?
Over a year 90% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Visalia, 5.4 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (98%) and January the cloudiest (71%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 21st (with 17 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 71% | 2.4 |
| February | 78% | 3.6 |
| March | 84% | 5.1 |
| April | 87% | 6.5 |
| May | 92% | 7.7 |
| June | 97% | 8.5 |
| July | 97% | 8.1 |
| August | 98% | 7.4 |
| September | 97% | 6.1 |
| October | 92% | 4.5 |
| November | 83% | 3.1 |
| December | 72% | 2.2 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Visalia need?
A normal year in Visalia brings 2,410 heating degree days, 55% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,743 cooling degree days, 92% more than the median (908). Four months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 5,138 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 563 | 0 |
| February | 379 | 0 |
| March | 277 | 3 |
| April | 158 | 28 |
| May | 44 | 137 |
| June | 4 | 308 |
| July | 0 | 473 |
| August | 0 | 436 |
| September | 4 | 280 |
| October | 76 | 77 |
| November | 336 | 1 |
| December | 569 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 2,410 | 1,743 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00049367. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Visalia been warmer than normal lately?
Over 68 complete years from 1878 to 2016, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.6°F per century (+0.03°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Visalia's climate compare?
Visalia is warmer than 151 of the other 218 places with their own NOAA record in California, and wetter than 44. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 63.1°F is warmer than 83%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Visalia is BSk: cold semi-arid steppe. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Visalia share this climate record?
22 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.
- Tulare, CAalso near: Corcoran (15 mi, 63.7°F a year); Lindsay (16 mi, 62.9°F a year)72,601 people · 9 mi S
- Dinuba, CA25,833 people · 16 mi N
- Farmersville, CA10,501 people · 5 mi E
- Orange Cove, CA9,708 people · 20 mi N
- Orosi, CA8,679 people · 15 mi N
- Goshen, CA4,895 people · 7 mi W
- Ivanhoe, CA4,397 people · 6 mi NE
- Cutler, CA4,002 people · 14 mi N
- London, CA1,701 people · 13 mi NW
- Patterson Tract, CA1,465 people · 4 mi N
- Delft Colony, CA1,024 people · 15 mi NW
- Sultana, CA957 people · 15 mi N
- Linnell Camp, CA852 people · 4 mi E
- East Tulare Villa, CA721 people · 9 mi S
- West Goshen, CA691 people · 9 mi W
- Matheny, CA628 people · 11 mi S
- Seville, CA423 people · 11 mi N
- East Orosi, CA413 people · 15 mi N
- Monson, CA204 people · 11 mi N
- Hypericum, CA138 people · 7 mi SE
- El Monte Mobile Village, CA106 people · 17 mi NW
- Yettem, CA106 people · 11 mi N
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Visalia's climate
What is the coldest month in Visalia?
December, with a normal high of 55°F and a normal low of 38°F. The warmest is July (94°F by day, 67°F at night).
Does it snow in Visalia?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is 0.1 inch a year.
What is the rainiest month in Visalia?
January, with 1.96 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is July with 0.00 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Visalia in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Visalia in zone 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas (9b in 93291, the largest). By the same method at Visalia's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 29°F (16 years, 1991-2020): zone 9b.
How late can frost come in Visalia?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after January 23; in one year in ten it comes after February 27. Waiting until February 27 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Visalia in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- California climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Lemon Cove, CA16 miles from this station, 65.0°F a year
- Lindsay, CA16 miles from this station, 62.9°F a year
- Hanford, CA19 miles from this station, 63.4°F a year
- Corcoran, CA22 miles from this station, 63.7°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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