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California · 827,526 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:27

Partly cloudy
15°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 15°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
7 km/h
Humidity
68 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
56 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:32 Set 18:14 Day 10 h 42 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ W 6 km/h
Humidity 62 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
16°15°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ WSW 10 km/h
Humidity 70 %
14:00
Partly cloudy
17°
NNE 1

San Francisco 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°12°15°17°19°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed17°13°Thu 29 Oct: max 17° · min 12° · normal 14.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 17° · min 14° · normal 14.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 17° · min 13° · normal 14.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 16° · min 13° · normal 14.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 17° · min 12° · normal 14.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 18° · min 13° · normal 14.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 17° · min 13° · normal 13.9°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu11°15°19°18°12°04
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

San Francisco climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 58% of the annual total; February by itself averages 105 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 520 mm of rain — less than 86% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is September, when afternoons average 25 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 6 °C.

From 14 h 46 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 32 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (22 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan14 °C6 °C100 mm
Feb16 °C8 °C105 mm
Mar16 °C9 °C79 mm
Apr18 °C9 °C38 mm
May20 °C11 °C20 mm
Jun23 °C12 °C5 mm
Jul24 °C13 °C1 mm
Aug24 °C14 °C1 mm
Sep25 °C13 °C2 mm
Oct22 °C12 °C23 mm
Nov18 °C9 °C50 mm
Dec14 °C6 °C95 mm
Whole year19 °C10 °C520 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.77° N, 122.42° 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 San Francisco: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around San Francisco

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over San Francisco

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 22:48 Set 13:49
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 San Francisco

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

San Francisco weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in San Francisco, 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 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 17 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations