Rise 07:15 Set 18:04Day 10 h 49 minUV 6 · Moderate
Morning, afternoon, evening
Trend
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
23°21°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NW 10 km/h
Humidity 36 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
19°16°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ NW 8 km/h
Humidity 48 %
14:00
23°
NW 10
Night
Partly cloudy
17°14°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ SSW 4 km/h
Humidity 62 %
Morning
Clear sky
20°16°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ WNW 3 km/h
Humidity 54 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
24°23°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NW 10 km/h
Humidity 41 %
Evening
Drizzle
19°16°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ SSW 10 km/h
Humidity 59 %
💧 0.4 mm
Night
Mainly clear
17°13°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ N 4 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Morning
Partly cloudy
17°15°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NW 4 km/h
Humidity 63 %
Afternoon
Drizzle
22°17°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NNW 7 km/h
Humidity 42 %
💧 0.3 mm
Evening
Light rain
17°15°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NW 13 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 1.7 mm
Night
Rain
14°13°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ NNW 19 km/h
Gusts30 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 10.9 mm
Morning
Light rain
14°13°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ NW 7 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 7.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.7 mm
Evening
Rain showers
15°13°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ S 9 km/h
Humidity 66 %
💧 0.4 mm
Night
Clear sky
13°10°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ S 7 km/h
Humidity 69 %
Morning
Mainly clear
15°12°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 70 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ NW 5 km/h
Humidity 46 %
Evening
Clear sky
16°12°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ E 5 km/h
Humidity 60 %
Night
Clear sky
13°10°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ NNE 5 km/h
Humidity 69 %
Morning
Clear sky
17°12°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NW 5 km/h
Humidity 64 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
23°19°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NW 4 km/h
Humidity 28 %
Evening
Mainly clear
18°13°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ SSE 3 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Night
Clear sky
16°11°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ WNW 12 km/h
Humidity 48 %
Morning
Clear sky
15°13°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ NW 6 km/h
Humidity 70 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
22°18°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ NW 12 km/h
Humidity 37 %
Evening
Mainly clear
17°11°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ S 2 km/h
Humidity 57 %
Night
Partly cloudy
15°9°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ W 1 km/h
Humidity 66 %
Morning
Partly cloudy
15°14°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
21°19°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ WNW 9 km/h
Humidity 50 %
Evening
Clear sky
17°13°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ W 7 km/h
Humidity 60 %
Night
Overcast
14°9°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ SSE 9 km/h
Gusts23 km/h
Humidity 70 %
Morning
Overcast
15°14°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ WNW 10 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
20°18°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ WNW 11 km/h
Humidity 52 %
Evening
Clear sky
13°12°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ S 9 km/h
Humidity 48 %
Night
Clear sky
12°8°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ NNW 6 km/h
Humidity 53 %
Morning
Clear sky
18°11°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ NW 8 km/h
Humidity 56 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
23°21°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NW 6 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Evening
Clear sky
15°13°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 46 %
Night
Clear sky
13°12°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ WNW 2 km/h
Humidity 54 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
22°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 29 %
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ WSW 1 km/h
Humidity 44 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NNW 9 km/h
Humidity 24 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Light rain
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ NE 7 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 67 %
💧 1.5 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ SSE 3 km/h
Gusts11 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 3.9 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 69 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ SW 6 km/h
Humidity 50 %
💧 0.1 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
10°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ SE 8 km/h
Humidity 71 %
Bakersfield forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Bakersfield climate: what a normal year looks like
A normal year brings roughly 290 mm of rain — less than 94% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
From June to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to September; the typical peak is 35 °C in July.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 35 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 5 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 18 °C.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (25 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
15 °C
6 °C
50 mm
Feb
18 °C
7 °C
53 mm
Mar
19 °C
9 °C
52 mm
Apr
22 °C
11 °C
29 mm
May
27 °C
15 °C
12 mm
Jun
31 °C
19 °C
2 mm
Jul
35 °C
22 °C
1 mm
Aug
34 °C
21 °C
0 mm
Sep
31 °C
18 °C
1 mm
Oct
25 °C
13 °C
12 mm
Nov
20 °C
8 °C
27 mm
Dec
15 °C
5 °C
48 mm
Whole year
24 °C
13 °C
290 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.37° N, 119.02° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Bakersfield: pollution and pollen
3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1047µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Bakersfield
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bakersfield, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Bakersfield
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 22:43 Set 13:26
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Los_Angeles); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Bakersfield
Curious about the weather in Bakersfield on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Bakersfield weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Bakersfield, California: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 17 °C (feels like 17 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.
Expected range today: 11 °C to 23 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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