Average Rainfall at California Beaches in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at beaches, cities and parks along the Pacific Ocean in California.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The rainfall totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Southern Coast, Los Angeles Area, Central Coast, San Francisco Area and Northern Coast.

Southern California Coast

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
0 Laguna Beach 0.0 1
0 Newport Beach  0.0 0
0 Oceanside  0.0 1
0 San Diego 0.0 0
1 Santa Catalina Island 0.0 0

Los Angeles Area

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
0 Long Beach  0.0 0
1 Oxnard 0.0 0
0 Point Mugu 0.0 0
0 Santa Monica 0.0 0
0 Big Sur State Park 0.1 1

Central California Coast

Total rainfall averages for August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
0 Lompoc 0.0 0
2 Monterey 0.1 2
0 Morro Bay  0.0 1
1 Pismo Beach 0.0 1
1 Salinas  0.0 1
0 Santa Barbara 0.0 0

San Francisco Area

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
5 Bodega Bay 0.1 3
8 Half Moon Bay 0.2 6
1 San Francisco, Fort Funston 0.1 1
3 San Gregorio  0.2 4
1 Santa Cruz 0.0 1

Northern California Coast

Rainy weather during August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
6 Crescent City  0.4 9
4 Eureka  0.2 5
3 Fort Bragg  0.1 3
2 Klamath 0.3 8
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

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