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Sacramento weather

California · 524,943 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 10:08

Partly cloudy
8°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 8°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
3 km/h
Humidity
74 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
56 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:29 Set 18:09 Day 10 h 39 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Morning
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
15°12°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ NNW 8 km/h
Humidity 51 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
20°19°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ SSE 3 km/h
Humidity 34 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
17°14°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ S 4 km/h
Humidity 40 %
11:00
Partly cloudy
15°
N 2
14:00
Partly cloudy
19°
NW 2

Sacramento 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)
6°11°15°20°24°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed21°10°Thu 29 Oct: max 19° · min 8° · normal 16.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 21° · min 12° · normal 16.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 22° · min 11° · normal 16.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 11° · normal 16.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 21° · min 8° · normal 16.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 20° · min 10° · normal 15.9°Wed 4 Nov: max 21° · min 10° · normal 15.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu7°16°24°22°8°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Sacramento climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in July: 34 °C in the afternoon against 17 °C before dawn, a 17 °C swing.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 57% of the annual total; January by itself averages 121 mm.

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 34 °C in July.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 20 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan14 °C5 °C121 mm
Feb17 °C7 °C114 mm
Mar19 °C9 °C95 mm
Apr22 °C10 °C45 mm
May27 °C13 °C25 mm
Jun31 °C16 °C5 mm
Jul34 °C17 °C0 mm
Aug33 °C16 °C1 mm
Sep31 °C15 °C3 mm
Oct26 °C12 °C32 mm
Nov19 °C8 °C62 mm
Dec14 °C5 °C117 mm
Whole year24 °C11 °C620 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 38.58° N, 121.49° 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 Sacramento: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.52µg/m³
PM102µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sacramento

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sacramento, 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 Sacramento

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 22:41 Set 13:48
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.

Look up a past day in Sacramento

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

Sacramento weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sacramento, California: 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 8 °C (feels like 8 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 8 °C to 19 °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.

Sacramento weather data for developers

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