Weather in Los Angeles, California. LA Has Most Pleasant Weather in The US!

Updated 01/20/2022

Bad Weather Can Make a Bad Mood Worse. According to one study, if you’re in a good mood, the weather won’t have much effect on your mood, but if you’re in a bad mood, the weather can make it worse. People tend to respond to weather differently. Participants did tend to report that an increase in temperature gave them more energy. Worse mood also seemed to correlate with less sun and more wind. What’s more, some people appear to be more sensitive to weather variations than others. The important thing is to notice how weather affects you and recognize when an oppressively hot day or rainy weather might be partly responsible for your lousy mood.

What Is the Weather in Los Angeles, CA Right Now?

The primary weather station for Los Angeles is located near downtown at the University of Southern California campus, and this article refers primarily to climate data generated by this station as representative of the Los Angeles metropolitan area as a whole.

Statistically, Los Angeles Has Most Pleasant Weather in the US

It’s official: Los Angeles’s weather is awesome. According to data from the last 23 years, the three cities with the most “pleasant” weather in the nation are, in order: Los Angeles, San Diego, and Oxnard. Follow the coast between San Francisco and San Diego and find a jagged line of great weather, averaging about 100 great days a year based on Norton’s criteria: The most days a year when “the mean temperature was between (55° F and 75° F), the minimum temperature was above 45° F, the maximum temperature was below 85° F and there was no significant precipitation or snow depth.” Los Angeles averaged 183 days a year within those boundaries. The top five cities were all in California, but the big surprise? Drizzly, gray San Francisco was number five.

The climate of Los Angeles is a year-round mild-to-hot and mostly dry. The climate is classified as a Mediterranean climate, which is a type of dry subtropical climate. It is characterized by seasonal changes in rainfall—with a dry summer and a winter rainy season. The Los Angeles area contains microclimates, where daytime temperatures can vary as much as 36 °F (20 °C) between inland areas such as the San Fernando Valley or San Gabriel Valley, and the coastal Los Angeles Basin.

Los Angeles Weather Forecast

Los Angeles has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers, and mild-to-warm winters, with increased precipitation. While the typical dry-summer and wet-winter patterns typical of most Mediterranean climates are part of the climate of Los Angeles, precipitation annually is lower than in many typical Mediterranean climates, giving it semi-arid characteristics.

Los Angeles Weather Year-round

The summer dry season normally runs from May through October, when clear skies, hot temperatures, and very little change in sensible weather occur from day to day. Average high temperatures are in the lower 80’s F (26-28 C) with overnight lows in the lower 60’s F (15-17 C). During this season, there is essentially no rainfall, and both July and August average less than 0.05 of an inch (1.27 mm) of monthly precipitation.

The winter wet season normally runs from November through April. Precipitation episodes in Los Angeles, with a few notable exceptions, are largely caused by extratropical disturbances approaching California from the west or northwest during the winter season. The normal seasonal rainfall measured at downtown Los Angeles is 14.77 inches, of which 92% falls between November 1 and April 30. While there is a great increase in rainfall in the winter months, the winter months in Los Angeles are still frequently sunny and pleasant with mild -to-warm temperatures. The average highs range from the upper 60’s F to lower 70’s F (17-21 C) with cooler overnight lows in the upper 40’s and lower 50’s F (8-12 C). Warm winter temperatures give the city subtropical characteristics

Month	Low	High
Jan	48.5°F	68.1°F
Feb	50.3°F	69.6°F
Mar	51.6°F	69.8°F
Apr	54.4°F	73.1°F
May	57.9°F	74.5°F
Jun	61.4°F	79.5°F
Jul	64.6°F	83.8°F
Aug	65.6°F	84.8°F
Sept	64.6°F	83.3°F
Oct	59.9°F	79.0°F
Nov	52.6°F	73.2°F
Dec	48.3°F	68.7°F

Los Angeles’s coldest month is December when the average temperature overnight is 48.3°F. In August, the warmest month, the average daytime temperature rises to 84.8°F.

Weather & Mental Health

Bad Weather Can Make a Bad Mood Worse. If you have mental health problems or recovering from addiction, it might be a good idea to keep track of the things that affect your mood and overall mental health. One of these things is the weather. One study found that if you’re in a good mood, the weather won’t have much effect on your mood, but if you’re in a bad mood, the weather can make it worse. The actual results of the study were a bit of a mixed bag because people tend to respond to weather differently. Participants did tend to report that an increase in temperature gave them more energy. Worse mood also seemed to correlate with less sun and more wind. These effects were relatively small but still significant. What’s more, some people appear to be more sensitive to weather variations than others. According to American Psychiatric Association, the important thing is to notice how weather affects you and recognize when oppressive weather might be partly responsible for your lousy mood.

Most people with substance use issues or mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders are more likely to be affected by the weather. While we can’t control the weather, being aware of how the weather affects your mood can help make you less vulnerable to its possible effects and allow you to make adjustments.