is Sacramento one of the warmest places in CA?

Question

how warm does it get during the summer? i really want to move to a warm/hot place not average temperatures..

Answer 1

If you want warm/hot, your best place is inland Southern California. All places along the coast are moderated by the ocean. San Diego, especially, is in the 70's year round. You might like one of the desert towns like Palm Springs and others in that area.

Sacramento is quite hot in the summer during the day, but usually cools off at night. There are very few days you can't sleep with the windowns open instead of air conditioning.

In the winter, it is chilly (although almost never below freezing), with the days varying from the 50's to the 70's depending on whether the sun is out. You can have long miserable periods where the sun never comes out, but we console ourselves with the fact that we can usually drive up into the mountains (an hour and a half away by car) to see sun on the snow so bright it hurts the eyes. (Sometimes, it's stormy everywhere, but not for long.)

I believe the hottest (average) place in California that's actually a town (as opposed to a National Park like Death Valley) is Needles, on the Colorado River. I wouldn't recommend it, because there is a lot of irrigated agriculture there, which makes it humid as well as hot, and once you've experienced 119 degrees and humid, you won't want to do it again.

Answer 2

Yes, Sac gets warm/hot during the summer. Most days are in the 90's and there are about 15 days where the temp is in the 100's. However during the winter the temp gets down into the mid 40's to 50's.

Answer 3

I'm from the bay area and I've gone to sacramento many times during each season.During the summer it does get really warm,more warm than where I live.And right now in the Winter it is much colder over there than living near the bay.
Though I don't consider it as the warmest place in California.I'm thinking it's death valley.

Answer 4

Most scientists are in agreement now that 'climate change' is a more accurate term to explain the current weather situation than global warming. Human-induced climate change is very much a reality. Russian shipping companies are already poised to take advantage of reduced (and later no) ice in the Arctic Circle during the summer months. Polar bears are drowning daily. The erratic weather associated with this climate change has lead to numerous weather records to be broken within the past few years - think of the recent rain and flooding in the UK and tornadoes in Manitoba, Canada - far beyond their usual northern range. The process is not about everywhere becoming warmer but about drastic and unpredictable changes over a very very short timescale - geologically speaking. Yes the earth has experienced this before, but the process was slower. It amazes me that this topic is still being discussed really. Even George Bush has admitted the 'possibility' and you know that means something's up!!

Answer 5

It gets really, really hot there, and stays hot all summer. Everything turns brown.

It's above the national average for heat. It is not unusual to have days of over 100 degree temperatures.

I used to live there - moving there from Colorado. We left 13 inches of snow in Colorado, and 3 days later arriving in Sacramento, it was 113 degrees and stayed hot until the middle of October.

If you like it - it will be hot enough for you.

Answer 6

Its brrrr cold today. Some summers have 10-20 days of 100-plus temps, some have none, depends on the year and the tides. The sun burns bright, and that makes it seem hot - and dry. But Redding is way north of here, and it's hotter up there. We get breezes from the rivers.

Answer 7

August in Sacramento can reach over 110º.

Sacramento actually has seasons, compared to southern CA. I can get pretty cold in the winter, below freezing, but because it's near sea level, snow is very, very rare.

Answer 8

Sacramento is not the warmest place in CA. To me, it's cold. I live in Orange County near Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland and we have warmer weather than them. The desserts are hot like Palm Springs, Mojave, etc.

Answer 9

Many days in Sac in the summer time are over 100 degrees. And dry. If it's cooler than it's in the 90's. There are other places in Calif. just as hot or hotter but for one of largest cities in Northern Calif. you can't beat that fact you're close to many areas of the Bay Area, wine country, Tahoe, and San Francisco for quick visits. Unless you wish to move to the desert areas but they are remote and smaller areas to live with much less shopping available. Personally, I lived 20 minutes from Sac for several summers and I thought it was too hot so it should be perfect for you. I know you won't get cold in the summer time that's for sure.

Answer 10

Our temps range from freezing in the winter to over 100 in the summer. mostly dry heat. If your lookiing for someplace warm year around you need to go south. LA, Orange county, San diego are fairly nice year round.