Home › United States › CA › Los Angeles

Los Angeles weather

CA · 3,820,914 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 09:05

Partly cloudy
16°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 16°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
8 km/h
Humidity
87 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
63 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:10 Set 18:03 Day 10 h 52 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Morning
Overcast
Overcast
21°20°
Feels like 25°
Wind ↑ SSE 6 km/h
Humidity 70 %
Afternoon
Overcast
Overcast
21°
Feels like 25°
Wind ↑ SSW 10 km/h
Humidity 64 %
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind ↑ SW 10 km/h
Humidity 67 %
11:00
Overcast
21°
SSE 6
14:00
Overcast
21°
SSW 10

Los Angeles 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)
10°15°19°24°28°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed23°15°Thu 29 Oct: max 21° · min 16° · normal 18.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 21° · min 17° · normal 18.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 21° · min 16° · normal 17.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 21° · min 15° · normal 17.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 23° · min 12° · normal 17.8°Tue 3 Nov: max 26° · min 14° · normal 17.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 23° · min 15° · normal 17.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu10°19°28°26°12°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Los Angeles climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 370 mm of rain — less than 92% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 62% of the annual total; February by itself averages 90 mm.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in August (20 °C) and the coolest in February (14 °C).

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in August and September; the typical peak is 31 °C in August.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfallSea
Jan18 °C8 °C84 mm15 °C
Feb19 °C9 °C90 mm14 °C
Mar20 °C10 °C60 mm14 °C
Apr22 °C11 °C23 mm15 °C
May24 °C13 °C11 mm16 °C
Jun26 °C16 °C3 mm18 °C
Jul30 °C18 °C3 mm19 °C
Aug31 °C19 °C1 mm20 °C
Sep30 °C18 °C4 mm20 °C
Oct26 °C15 °C18 mm19 °C
Nov22 °C10 °C22 mm17 °C
Dec18 °C7 °C55 mm15 °C
Whole year24 °C13 °C370 mm17 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 34.05° N, 118.24° 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 Los Angeles: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM106µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Los Angeles

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Los Angeles, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Los Angeles

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 22:44 Set 13:18
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Los_Angeles); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Los Angeles

Tide station used: Los Angeles

Sea state
Rippled
waves 0.5 m
Period
15 s
Swell
0.5 m
WedWed 28/10
Low tide 18:01 -0.3 m
TodayThu 29/10
High tide 00:37 1.1 m
Low tide 04:48 0.8 m
High tide 11:19 1.9 m
Low tide 19:02 -0.2 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High tide 01:58 1.1 m
Low tide 05:37 0.9 m
High tide 12:14 1.8 m
Low tide 20:10 -0.1 m
SatSat 31/10
High tide 03:35 1.1 m
Low tide 06:53 1.0 m
High tide 13:26 1.7 m
Low tide 21:27 0.0 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Los Angeles

Curious about the weather in Los Angeles on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Los Angeles weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Los Angeles, CA: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 21 °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, plus the tide times for Los Angeles.

Los Angeles weather data for developers

Use the Los Angeles forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.

Create a free key

Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations