WEATHER · CLIMATE NORMALS · 1991–2020
Sacramento Climate — Averages by Month
What the weather in Sacramento, USaverages across a standard 30-year period. Each month's figure is the 1991–2020 mean temperature and total rainfall from the ERA5 reanalysis — the long-run normal a place settles around, not a forecast for any particular day.
Month-by-month normals
| Month | Avg temperature | Avg rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2 °C · coldest | 120.4 mm · wettest |
| February | 11.2 °C | 113.1 mm |
| March | 13.5 °C | 94.0 mm |
| April | 16.1 °C | 44.6 mm |
| May | 19.6 °C | 24.7 mm |
| June | 22.9 °C | 5.2 mm |
| July | 23.9 °C · warmest | 0.4 mm |
| August | 23.5 °C | 1.4 mm |
| September | 22.3 °C | 2.6 mm |
| October | 18.2 °C | 31.2 mm |
| November | 12.6 °C | 60.3 mm |
| December | 9.2 °C | 115.4 mm |
How to read these numbers
These are reanalysis normals, not readings from a single weather station. They come from the ERA5 0.25° (~25 km) global reanalysis grid, sampled at the grid cell nearest Sacramento — centred at 38.50°N, 121.50°W. A reanalysis blends observations with a physics model onto an even grid, so a coastal or mountain city's cell can read a little cooler, warmer, wetter or drier than the city centre itself. The month-to-month shape — when it's hot, when it rains — is what these normals capture best.
“Normal” means the 1991–2020 average, the current World Meteorological Organization standard period. A normal is what a place tends toward over decades — any single day, month or year can and will depart from it.