Climate averages 1991–2020

Los Ángeles weather
in July.

A cool, very wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 11.8°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 3.4°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 193 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Los Ángeles · average highYear overview

July is a cool month in Los Ángeles: daytime highs average 11.8°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 193 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 50 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Villa Mercedes, Chile (34 km away). In July its highs average 11.1°C, 0.7°C cooler than Los Ángeles, with 285 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Los Ángeles ranks 33rd of 40 for the warmest July highs and 32nd of 40 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 40 cities is 14.5°C; Los Ángeles is 2.7°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 13.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 193 mm to 169 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Los Ángeles climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Los Ángeles, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 26.5°C12.9°C12.9°C152.014.414 h
February 26.2°C12.8°C12.8°C252.513.514 h
March 23.7°C11.3°C11.3°C334.012.312 h
April 18.9°C8.4°C8.4°C856.711.211 h
May 15.0°C6.4°C6.4°C17811.010.110 h
June 12.2°C4.6°C4.6°C25215.59.610 h
July, selected 11.8°C3.4°C3.4°C19314.19.810 h
August 13.1°C4.0°C4.0°C16913.110.711 h
September 15.3°C5.2°C5.2°C949.411.812 h
October 17.8°C6.8°C6.8°C718.113.013 h
November 21.0°C9.0°C9.0°C405.114.114 h
December 24.2°C11.2°C11.2°C303.914.715 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

July in nearby cities

Distance from Los Ángeles

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Los Ángeles) is explained once on the Los Ángeles year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.