All-time weather records — Nevada City, CA

Record high
111.0°F
August 14, 1933
Record low
-18.9°F
October 6, 2017
Wettest day
8.50 in
October 25, 2021

Climate change signal in Nevada City

4.1%

of Nevada City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (15 of 366 records since 2015).

1.9%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (7 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1890s
3
2
1900s
41
22
1910s
78
91
1920s
45
70
1930s
89
78
1940s
37
37
1950s
13
23
1960s
12
9
1970s
5
19
1980s
15
1
1990s
4
4
2000s
5
2
2010s
4
7
2020s
15
1

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1895, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 82.9°F — Jan 17, 1920 -0.9°F — Jan 21, 1937 7.75 in — Jan 2, 1997
February 86.0°F — Feb 2, 1906 5.0°F — Feb 9, 1937 7.49 in — Feb 17, 1986
March 91.9°F — Mar 17, 1914 12.0°F — Mar 6, 1908 5.58 in — Mar 8, 1986
April 93.9°F — Apr 24, 1910 18.0°F — Apr 7, 1929 3.95 in — Apr 7, 2018
May 100.9°F — May 30, 1910 1.0°F — May 13, 2002 3.50 in — May 16, 1996
June 104.0°F — Jun 22, 1936 28.0°F — Jun 11, 1919 2.14 in — Jun 5, 2012
July 106.0°F — Jul 4, 1931 35.1°F — Jul 1, 1912 0.74 in — Jul 2, 1980
August 111.0°F — Aug 14, 1933 34.0°F — Aug 13, 1938 1.69 in — Aug 15, 1976
September 107.1°F — Sep 7, 2022 27.0°F — Sep 30, 1925 2.79 in — Sep 19, 1959
October 99.0°F — Oct 7, 1917 -18.9°F — Oct 6, 2017 8.50 in — Oct 25, 2021
November 90.0°F — Nov 4, 1936 12.9°F — Nov 23, 1931 7.20 in — Nov 23, 1988
December 86.0°F — Dec 13, 1924 -0.9°F — Dec 9, 1972 6.83 in — Dec 31, 2005

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Nevada City.