Weather in Alameda, month by month

Warmest month
September, 17.6
Coldest month
January, 9.4
Wettest month
December, 138 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Alameda is September at 17.6 degrees and the coldest is January at 9.4, a swing of 8.2 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in December, about 138 mm, and lightest in July at roughly 1 mm. Over a full year the cell above Alameda collects around 587 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are June, July, August, September and October. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.

Humidity peaks in January at 84 percent, and the windiest month is May at 2.5 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 90 per cent of the year total falls in November, December, January, February, March and April.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 37.77, -122.26, covering Alameda on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Alameda, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January9.4100 mm84%
February10.3102 mm82%
March11.483 mm82%
April12.242 mm80%
May1418 mm78%
June166 mm74%
July16.81 mm74%
August17.31 mm74%
September17.64 mm70%
October15.930 mm69%
November12.462 mm76%
December9.6138 mm82%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Alameda?

September, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Alameda?

January, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Alameda?

December carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Albany, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

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Related pages

Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))