Ideal weather days in Sacramento
The best time to visit Sacramento for warm, dry weather is April, May and October, with 21 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Sacramento's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April, May and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Sacramento, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold96
- Too hot84
- Too wet49
- Too windy9
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Sacramento averaged 169 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in May, June and September (up to 21 a month, 124 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in March, November and December (up to 16 a month, 92 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 96 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 84 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Sacramento weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16 °C 60 °F | 9 | 2 | 17 | 4 of 31 |
| February | 17 °C 62 °F | 10 | 1 | 15 | 8 of 28 |
| March | 17 °C 63 °F | 12 | 1 | 12 | 11 of 31 |
| April | 25 °C 76 °F | 3 | 1 | 24 | 25 of 30 |
| May | 30 °C 85 °F | 2 | 1 | 27 | 22 of 31 |
| June | 32 °C 90 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 18 of 30 |
| July | 36 °C 96 °F | 0 | 0 | 31 | 9 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 95 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 8 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 89 °F | 1 | 0 | 28 | 17 of 30 |
| October | 28 °C 82 °F | 2 | 1 | 29 | 21 of 31 |
| November | 19 °C 66 °F | 6 | 1 | 22 | 16 of 30 |
| December | 17 °C 62 °F | 12 | 1 | 16 | 10 of 31 |
| Year | 55 | 9 | 281 | 169 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 173 warm, dry days
- 2024 149 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Sacramento for good weather?
The best time to visit Sacramento for warm, dry weather is April, May and October, with 21 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in May, June and September (up to 21 a month, 124 a year). Counted from measured days at Sacramento Airport ASOS station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Sacramento?
On average 55 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (12 rain days), the driest June (0).
How many sunny days does Sacramento get a year?
About 281 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (31).
How warm does Sacramento get?
The median daily high ranged from 16 °C (60 °F) in January to 36 °C (96 °F) in July.
Nearby
- San Francisco120 km162 days
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- Las Vegas620 km126 days
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- Honolulu4000 km224 days
More cities in the United States
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- Orlando 203 days
- Tampa 194 days
- Miami 181 days
- Charlotte 177 days
- Atlanta 168 days
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- Denver 151 days
- Nashville 150 days
- New Orleans 144 days
- St. Louis 143 days
- Seattle 142 days
- Houston 141 days
- Kansas City 135 days
- Austin 134 days
- Albuquerque 132 days
- Detroit 131 days
- Dallas 129 days
- New York 129 days
- Chicago 120 days
- Minneapolis 120 days
- Billings 116 days
- Boston 116 days
- Salt Lake City 107 days
- Fairbanks 81 days
- Anchorage 55 days
- Juneau 45 days
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Source: Sacramento Airport ASOS weather station (72483023232), 8 km from the centre of Sacramento, 6 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 89% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.