Climate averages 1991–2020

Fontana weather
in August.

A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 33.5°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 19.3°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 1.1 mm fewer than one day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Fontana · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in Fontana: daytime highs average 33.5°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 1.1 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes August a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 25 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is San Bernardino (13 km away). In August its highs average 33.9°C, about as warm as Fontana, with 9.0 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Fontana ranks 77th of 498 for the warmest August highs and joint 62nd of 498 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 498 cities is 29.9°C; Fontana is 3.6°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 1.9°C to 31.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 1.1 mm to 5.5 mm.

The annual picture

August 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. 0510152025303540 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 1500

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

Every month, side by side

Fontana climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Fontana, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 16.7°C4.3°C4.3°C966.610.210 h
February 17.1°C5.2°C5.2°C1117.410.911 h
March 19.3°C6.9°C6.9°C686.812.012 h
April 21.9°C8.8°C8.8°C324.613.013 h
May 24.8°C11.7°C11.7°C152.613.914 h
June 29.0°C15.0°C15.0°C3.40.514.414 h
July 32.4°C18.7°C18.7°C2.20.514.214 h
August, selected 33.5°C19.3°C19.3°C1.10.313.413 h
September 31.6°C17.0°C17.0°C5.51.212.412 h
October 26.3°C12.2°C12.2°C223.111.411 h
November 20.9°C7.5°C7.5°C303.510.410 h
December 16.3°C4.1°C4.1°C675.89.910 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Fontana

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 Fontana) is explained once on the Fontana year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Riverside, Rancho Cucamonga and Corona lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.