Climate

in San Francisco, California

(San Francisco is Located in San Francisco County)

Climate in San Francisco, California

What is the climate like in San Francisco, California? There are many important factors that may affect your personal climate preferences including average temperature and humidity, annual rainfall and snow, number of cloudy days, wind speeds, and more.

Climate Comfort: Average Snowfall and Rainfall are included

In a typical year, San Francisco, California temperatures fall below 50F° for 106 days per year. Annual precipitation in San Francisco is typically 31.0 inches per year (lowAnalytics team at Dwellics grouped locations into 5 ranges for each metric: Lowest, Low, Moderate, High, Highest in the US) and snow covers the ground 0 days per year or 0.0% of the year (the lowestAnalytics team at Dwellics grouped locations into 5 ranges for each metric: Lowest, Low, Moderate, High, Highest in the US). It may be helpful to understand the yearly precipitation by imagining 6 straight days of moderate rain per year. The humidity in San Francisco, California is below 60% for approximately 75.0 days or 20.5% of the year.

Number of days per year in each temperature range:

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Climate Mood comfort

Sunrise and sunset times vary by region in the United States. The duration of each day and the amount of sunlight can affect people's moods in a significant way. In San Francisco, California, the shortest day starts at 7:35 a.m. and ends at 4:50 p.m. and lasts for 9 hours 31 minutes. The longest day starts at 5:47 a.m. and ends at 8:35 p.m. and lasts for 14 hours 47 minutes.

Shortest day:

7:35AM

4:50PM

Longest day:

5:47AM

8:35PM

Cities Near San Francisco, CA

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Daly City, CA

Location data:

Fast internet (fixed lines)

Race diversity

Great weather (high number of days with temperatures 50-90 F)

Tiburon, CA

Location data:

Median income is high

Higher educated people

High proficiency in Reading and Language Arts at Middle schools

Brisbane, CA

Location data:

Great weather (high number of days with temperatures 50-90 F)

Sunny

Variety of playgrounds for kids

Cities Near San Francisco, CA

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Daly City, CA

Location data:

Fast internet (fixed lines)

Race diversity

Great weather (high number of days with temperatures 50-90 F)

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Pros and Cons of living in San Francisco, California in reviews from users in their own words:

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Weather	Crime
Weather	I hate HATE that it never gets above 65 degrees. I hate how cold and windy it is. The freezing cold super strong winds make going outside after 12pm almost unbearable for me because I have a health condition that causes severe facial pain triggered by cold wind. I am in a city and there is no parking anywhere so if you whatever you can’t walk to you can’t go to, which has significantly limited my ability to go to stores, find a yoga studio and explore. There is no public transit except overpriced Lyft or rideshares. The dew point and moisture is so high (humidity) that, combined with the wind, is disasterous for my curly hair and I basically always look sloppy and unkept. I’m miserable here. It’s hard to meet people. Been here 3 years and have no friends despite going out every day.
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I hate HATE that it never gets above 65 degrees. I hate how cold and windy it is. The freezing cold super strong winds make going outside after 12pm almost unbearable for me because I have a health condition that causes severe facial pain triggered by cold wind. I am in a city and there is no parking anywhere so if you whatever you can’t walk to you can’t go to, which has significantly limited my ability to go to stores, find a yoga studio and explore. There is no public transit except overpriced Lyft or rideshares. The dew point and moisture is so high (humidity) that, combined with the wind, is disasterous for my curly hair and I basically always look sloppy and unkept. I’m miserable here. It’s hard to meet people. Been here 3 years and have no friends despite going out every day.
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