Yosemite Park Headquarters, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Yosemite Park Headquarters's primary NOAA station, YOSEMITE PARK HQ.
The climate verdict for Yosemite Park Headquarters
Yosemite Park Headquarters, California has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 54°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 54°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 36.5"
- yearly precipitation total
- 189 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Yosemite Park Headquarters: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00049855 · Yosemite Park Headquarters, CA 54°F mean · 36.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,911
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Grundy
- PRCP-MID 36.5"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,741 HDD
- STN-1 USC00049855
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Grundy, VA (+ 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.
- Yosemite Park H… (this station) 54°F
- Cold Whitesburg, KY 54°F
- Hot Ice Harbor Dam, WA 54°F
- Near Grundy, VA 54°F
- Near Cecilville, CA 54°F
Climate Living Index · Yosemite Park Headquarters
Yosemite Park Headquarters: 65/100 · grade C
Yosemite Park Headquarters publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Yosemite Park Headquarters, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 36.5 in · 1.5 from 35 in | 93/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 128 calendar days | 60/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 54.0°F · 13.5° from 67.5°F | 56/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 189 days/year | 56/100 · C |
Yosemite Park Headquarters · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Yosemite Park Headquarters is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa
Coldest-month mean 36.8°F and warmest-month mean 73.3°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Csa). Class Csa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Csa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 73.3°F
- Coldest month
- 36.8°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 · heating-led station
Where Yosemite Park Headquarters sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Yosemite Park Headquarters's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 57th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 51st percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Yosemite Park Headquarters is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Yosemite Park Headquarters compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Yosemite Park Headquarters's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% 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
Yosemite Park Headquarters's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 46 complete annual observations from 1907 to 2017, YOSEMITE PARK HQ warmed at a fitted rate of 0.03°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Yosemite Park Headquarters primary station fitted change +0.03 °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 | 48°F (9°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 7.0" | 24.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 51°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 6.5" | 18.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 57°F (14°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 5.5" | 13.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.2" | 5.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (21°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 1.9" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.5" | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 16.7 |
| August | 89°F (32°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 16.8 |
| September | 83°F (28°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 0.4" | 0.1 | 6.5 |
| October | 71°F (22°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 1.6" | 2.8 | 0.5 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 4.0" | 14.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 46°F (8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 5.6" | 25.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Yosemite Park Headquarters works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by July 24 and hold at or above 90°F on 21 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 107 dates, bottoming at 27°F around December 19.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 18 through August 7, covering 21 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 15 to October 18.
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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 3, then returns to freezing around November 18, covering 107 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 March 3, when 35% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 12 at 3%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 67 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 24 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 32°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Yosemite Park Headquarters.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
8.9 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
7.2 days with precipitation
6.4 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
1.1 days with precipitation
0.9 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
3.5 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
8.5 days with precipitation
Yosemite Park Headquarters's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 52% 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 36.5°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 7.0"
- Driest month
- August, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- January, February, December (52% 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 Yosemite Park Headquarters, it arrives in quantity
36.5" of precipitation falls across only about 67 wet days here, averaging 0.55 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 67 a year, 18% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.55 inches
- Most wet days
- March, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- August, 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 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 21
50% probability date
Growing Season
189 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,741
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
754
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Yosemite Park Headquarters 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 (54°F here).
- Boardman, OR 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Damascus, MD 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Elsberry, MO 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Estacada, OR 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (36.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Des Moines, IA 36.5" · 0.0" off
- Kingfisher, OK 36.5" · 0.0" off
- San Marcos, TX 36.5" · 0.0" off
- Burleson, TX 36.5" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Yosemite Park Headquarters's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Yosemite Park Headquarters's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,741 annual heating degree days against 754 for cooling. Its 36.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Yosemite Park Headquarters's frost-free season lasts about 189 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Yosemite Park Headquarters's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 36.5°F. The annual average is 54°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Yosemite Park Headquarters's 36.5 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 Yosemite Park Headquarters'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 Yosemite Park Headquarters, 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 Yosemite Park Headquarters's primary station: YOSEMITE PARK HQ (USC00049855). 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 Yosemite Park Headquarters; 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 Yosemite Park Headquarters 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.