Santa Maria climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Santa Maria?

Santa Maria has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 14.2 °C and it receives 406 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Santa Maria?

The hottest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 1 September 1955, reaching 33.9 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Santa Maria?

The coldest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 22 December 1990, at -1.8 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Santa Maria?

Almost never: Santa Maria sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Santa Maria warmed?

Yes: Santa Maria warmed by +0.7 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Santa Maria?

The wettest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 5 December 1997, with 110 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Santa Maria?

The windiest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 28 January 1983, with winds reaching 55.7 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Santa Maria?

The warmest month in Santa Maria is August (17.7 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.9 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Santa Maria?

Santa Maria receives on average 406 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 39 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Santa Maria?

Santa Maria gets on average 11.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,125 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Santa Maria (United States) has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Csb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 14.2 °C and it receives 406 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is August (17.7 °C on average) and the coldest is January (10.9 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Santa Maria averages 0 frost days, 0 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 39 rainy days per year.

Santa Maria has warmed by +0.7 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.08 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 33.9 °C (on 1 September 1955) and the coldest -1.8 °C (on 22 December 1990).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Santa MariaCalifornia

coords: 34.95°, -120.44°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CsbWarm-summer MediterraneanWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

14.2°C

Average daily high

17.8°C

Average daily low

11.2°C

Annual rainfall

406mm

Sunshine / day

11.3h

Mean relative humidity

74%

Average peak wind

18.5km/h

Seasonal range

6.8°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

0 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

39 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.1 cm

Average feels-like high

16.7 °C

Average feels-like low

9.4 °C

Average peak gust

33.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

0 d/yr

Solar radiation

20.4 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+0.7 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.17 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

33.9 °C

1 September 1955

Coldest day

-1.8 °C

22 December 1990

Wettest day

110 mm

5 December 1997

Windiest day

55.7 km/h

28 January 1983

Strongest gust

108.7 km/h

3 February 1998

Hottest feels-like

34.4 °C

1 September 1955

Coldest feels-like

-7.5 °C

22 December 1990

Snowiest day

3.2 cm

13 February 2001

Sunniest day

14.0 h

19 May 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	26.2 °C21 August 2025	4.9 °C28 January 2025	14.2 °C	415 mm	0	0
2024	30.8 °C6 September 2024	5.0 °C12 January 2024	14.1 °C	452 mm	1	0
2023	29.0 °C6 October 2023	4.5 °C23 February 2023	14.1 °C	723 mm	0	0
2022	28.0 °C4 September 2022	3.9 °C24 February 2022	14.5 °C	294 mm	0	0
2021	29.4 °C16 June 2021	4.8 °C26 January 2021	14.1 °C	385 mm	0	0
2020	31.7 °C6 September 2020	3.9 °C17 January 2020	14.9 °C	247 mm	2	0
2019	27.7 °C25 October 2019	3.9 °C6 February 2019	14.4 °C	613 mm	0	0
2018	29.1 °C6 July 2018	3.9 °C20 February 2018	15.0 °C	359 mm	0	0
2017	32.2 °C2 September 2017	4.5 °C25 January 2017	15.1 °C	512 mm	3	0
2016	30.3 °C27 September 2016	3.9 °C18 December 2016	14.9 °C	394 mm	1	0
2015	28.8 °C9 October 2015	4.0 °C1 January 2015	15.6 °C	142 mm	0	0
2014	30.3 °C15 May 2014	5.5 °C5 February 2014	15.5 °C	245 mm	1	0
2013	27.3 °C29 June 2013	2.0 °C9 December 2013	14.1 °C	108 mm	0	0
2012	28.7 °C1 October 2012	3.1 °C18 January 2012	14.2 °C	343 mm	0	0
2011	28.9 °C13 October 2011	2.0 °C27 February 2011	13.7 °C	429 mm	0	0
2010	31.4 °C27 September 2010	4.3 °C25 November 2010	13.8 °C	695 mm	1	0
2009	29.5 °C29 August 2009	2.9 °C8 December 2009	14.1 °C	363 mm	0	0
2008	32.4 °C21 June 2008	4.5 °C28 December 2008	14.3 °C	369 mm	2	0
2007	29.8 °C2 September 2007	2.1 °C14 January 2007	14.0 °C	196 mm	0	0
2006	26.8 °C23 July 2006	4.1 °C20 February 2006	14.2 °C	491 mm	0	0
2005	26.9 °C29 September 2005	5.5 °C13 January 2005	14.3 °C	423 mm	0	0
2004	29.4 °C26 April 2004	4.0 °C1 December 2004	14.2 °C	430 mm	0	0
2003	28.1 °C10 July 2003	4.0 °C28 December 2003	14.5 °C	285 mm	0	0
2002	28.6 °C23 September 2002	2.9 °C30 January 2002	13.8 °C	286 mm	0	0
2001	26.2 °C7 June 2001	3.3 °C14 February 2001	14.0 °C	568 mm	0	0
2000	26.2 °C21 May 2000	4.6 °C13 November 2000	14.2 °C	453 mm	0	0
1999	26.8 °C30 September 1999	3.2 °C9 April 1999	13.6 °C	284 mm	0	0
1998	28.6 °C16 July 1998	1.6 °C23 December 1998	14.0 °C	734 mm	0	0
1997	29.7 °C5 August 1997	4.3 °C25 December 1997	15.1 °C	465 mm	0	0
1996	29.4 °C7 October 1996	3.0 °C28 February 1996	14.9 °C	616 mm	0	0
1995	28.7 °C29 July 1995	5.9 °C18 January 1995	14.9 °C	669 mm	0	0
1994	28.4 °C15 August 1994	4.9 °C20 November 1994	14.1 °C	337 mm	0	0
1993	29.1 °C26 September 1993	3.3 °C3 January 1993	14.8 °C	610 mm	0	0
1992	27.0 °C3 August 1992	4.3 °C18 December 1992	15.0 °C	511 mm	0	0
1991	28.6 °C1 October 1991	4.0 °C1 December 1991	14.0 °C	509 mm	0	0
1990	27.6 °C12 September 1990	-1.8 °C22 December 1990	14.3 °C	220 mm	0	1
1989	31.3 °C6 July 1989	1.8 °C6 February 1989	14.3 °C	152 mm	1	0
1988	31.6 °C4 September 1988	2.3 °C27 December 1988	14.4 °C	295 mm	2	0
1987	32.4 °C4 October 1987	2.2 °C16 January 1987	14.1 °C	362 mm	2	0
1986	24.6 °C20 April 1986	4.4 °C9 February 1986	14.4 °C	517 mm	0	0
1985	30.0 °C9 July 1985	2.9 °C13 December 1985	14.1 °C	258 mm	1	0
1984	28.3 °C7 September 1984	3.8 °C17 December 1984	14.8 °C	251 mm	0	0
1983	29.7 °C26 October 1983	5.1 °C1 January 1983	14.9 °C	921 mm	0	0
1982	28.7 °C2 September 1982	3.4 °C3 January 1982	14.0 °C	645 mm	0	0
1981	29.0 °C15 June 1981	4.7 °C26 February 1981	14.6 °C	392 mm	0	0
1980	31.0 °C1 October 1980	4.8 °C20 January 1980	14.3 °C	531 mm	1	0
1979	29.3 °C15 September 1979	2.0 °C29 January 1979	14.4 °C	399 mm	0	0
1978	29.6 °C25 September 1978	1.7 °C7 December 1978	14.5 °C	821 mm	0	0
1977	27.9 °C29 August 1977	4.2 °C14 March 1977	14.4 °C	292 mm	0	0
1976	29.5 °C31 August 1976	2.4 °C2 January 1976	14.5 °C	311 mm	0	0
1975	27.5 °C24 September 1975	3.1 °C28 January 1975	13.4 °C	338 mm	0	0
1974	28.1 °C16 October 1974	2.5 °C24 December 1974	14.0 °C	427 mm	0	0
1973	30.8 °C20 June 1973	2.4 °C7 January 1973	14.0 °C	493 mm	2	0
1972	28.5 °C31 July 1972	0.8 °C9 December 1972	14.1 °C	209 mm	0	0
1971	31.5 °C5 October 1971	2.3 °C5 January 1971	13.7 °C	252 mm	1	0
1970	29.9 °C27 September 1970	3.4 °C4 January 1970	14.3 °C	400 mm	0	0
1969	29.6 °C4 August 1969	2.4 °C29 January 1969	14.1 °C	699 mm	0	0
1968	30.4 °C25 September 1968	2.3 °C21 December 1968	14.2 °C	292 mm	1	0
1967	28.1 °C16 October 1967	1.8 °C14 December 1967	14.1 °C	445 mm	0	0
1966	28.4 °C1 November 1966	3.1 °C28 December 1966	14.0 °C	366 mm	0	0
1965	32.0 °C22 October 1965	2.2 °C1 January 1965	13.9 °C	527 mm	2	0
1964	31.4 °C19 October 1964	4.0 °C19 November 1964	13.5 °C	306 mm	2	0
1963	29.6 °C26 September 1963	2.4 °C13 January 1963	14.0 °C	408 mm	0	0
1962	27.5 °C28 August 1962	2.0 °C22 January 1962	13.6 °C	393 mm	0	0
1961	29.4 °C14 October 1961	4.2 °C12 December 1961	13.9 °C	202 mm	0	0
1960	30.0 °C17 July 1960	2.6 °C2 January 1960	13.8 °C	352 mm	1	0
1959	28.5 °C23 October 1959	4.7 °C13 February 1959	15.0 °C	362 mm	0	0
1958	28.3 °C16 October 1958	4.0 °C16 November 1958	15.0 °C	595 mm	0	0
1957	31.7 °C18 June 1957	1.7 °C28 January 1957	14.2 °C	331 mm	1	0
1956	28.7 °C16 May 1956	2.6 °C17 February 1956	13.6 °C	156 mm	0	0
1955	33.9 °C1 September 1955	2.8 °C4 February 1955	13.3 °C	281 mm	2	0
1954	28.3 °C31 August 1954	3.3 °C27 December 1954	14.0 °C	289 mm	0	0
1953	28.3 °C11 July 1953	3.4 °C2 March 1953	13.7 °C	132 mm	0	0
1952	27.8 °C30 September 1952	2.6 °C1 January 1952	13.4 °C	609 mm	0	0
1951	27.1 °C7 October 1951	3.2 °C8 December 1951	13.6 °C	296 mm	0	0
1950	29.2 °C13 October 1950	0.9 °C4 January 1950	13.9 °C	356 mm	0	0
1949	30.2 °C22 September 1949	-0.4 °C10 January 1949	13.4 °C	386 mm	1	1
1948	33.6 °C13 September 1948	2.4 °C24 December 1948	13.6 °C	420 mm	2	0
1947	27.9 °C12 September 1947	2.8 °C16 January 1947	13.7 °C	203 mm	0	0
1946	27.9 °C19 September 1946	2.8 °C4 February 1946	13.7 °C	293 mm	0	0
1945	33.3 °C2 October 1945	3.1 °C5 March 1945	14.2 °C	323 mm	2	0
1944	32.4 °C8 September 1944	2.7 °C14 March 1944	13.7 °C	365 mm	3	0
1943	30.7 °C26 July 1943	3.7 °C9 February 1943	14.6 °C	524 mm	2	0
1942	28.6 °C13 September 1942	2.6 °C3 January 1942	14.2 °C	293 mm	0	0
1941	27.9 °C14 August 1941	2.9 °C24 December 1941	14.3 °C	728 mm	0	0
1940	27.4 °C11 October 1940	4.2 °C15 January 1940	14.3 °C	545 mm	0	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

17.4 °C

-0.4 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

0 d/yr

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

415 mm

+9 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	15.3 °C	+0.5 °C	9 mm	-74 mm
Feb	15.8 °C	+0.9 °C	80 mm	-2 mm
Mar	14.3 °C	-1.0 °C	77 mm	+3 mm
Apr	15.2 °C	-1.0 °C	11 mm	-18 mm
May	17.5 °C	+0.2 °C	0 mm	-7 mm
Jun	17.8 °C	-1.4 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Jul	16.9 °C	-3.6 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Aug	20.5 °C	-0.5 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Sep	20.5 °C	-0.7 °C	11 mm	+6 mm
Oct	19.3 °C	-0.8 °C	32 mm	+18 mm
Nov	17.8 °C	+0.3 °C	99 mm	+57 mm
Dec	17.6 °C	+2.4 °C	95 mm	+29 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

26.2 °C

21 Aug 2025

Coldest day

4.9 °C

28 Jan 2025

Wettest day

42.9 mm

24 Dec 2025

Windiest day

47.4 km/h

24 Dec 2025

Strongest gust

84.2 km/h

24 Dec 2025

Hottest feels-like

27.4 °C

21 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

1.7 °C

14 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

14.0 h

19 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Santa Maria?

Santa Maria has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 14.2 °C and it receives 406 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Santa Maria?

The hottest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 1 September 1955, reaching 33.9 °C.

What is the coldest day in Santa Maria?

The coldest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 22 December 1990, at -1.8 °C.

Does it snow in Santa Maria?

Almost never: Santa Maria sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Santa Maria warmed?

Yes: Santa Maria warmed by +0.7 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Santa Maria?

The wettest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 5 December 1997, with 110 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Santa Maria?

The windiest day measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 28 January 1983, with winds reaching 55.7 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Santa Maria?

The warmest month in Santa Maria is August (17.7 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.9 °C).

How much does it rain in Santa Maria?

Santa Maria receives on average 406 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 39 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Santa Maria?

Santa Maria gets on average 11.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,125 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Santa Maria?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Santa Maria between 1940 and 2025 was 13 February 2001, with 3.2 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Santa Maria?

Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Santa Maria.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Santa Maria?

In Santa Maria, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 34.4 °C on 1 September 1955, and the lowest was -7.5 °C on 22 December 1990.

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