All-time weather records — Sacramento, CA

Record high
312.1°F
May 31, 1948
Record low
1.0°F
April 30, 1948
Wettest day
5.44 in
October 24, 2021

Climate change signal in Sacramento

15%

of Sacramento's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (55 of 366 records since 2015).

0.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (2 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 #
1870s
·
10
1880s
3
86
1890s
12
57
1900s
3
26
1910s
8
44
1920s
18
25
1930s
20
36
1940s
9
19
1950s
30
27
1960s
30
10
1970s
27
2
1980s
60
14
1990s
41
4
2000s
31
3
2010s
36
3
2020s
38
·

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 1887, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1877-2025.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 79.0°F — Jan 24, 2014 19.0°F — Jan 14, 1888 3.14 in — Jan 21, 1943
February 80.1°F — Feb 18, 1899 21.0°F — Feb 13, 1884 3.21 in — Feb 17, 1986
March 90.0°F — Mar 26, 1988 28.9°F — Mar 15, 1880 2.62 in — Mar 9, 1884
April 302.0°F — Apr 30, 1948 1.0°F — Apr 30, 1948 5.28 in — Apr 20, 1880
May 312.1°F — May 31, 1948 1.0°F — May 31, 1948 1.94 in — May 5, 1889
June 302.0°F — Jun 30, 1948 1.0°F — Jun 30, 1948 0.81 in — Jun 4, 1993
July 114.1°F — Jul 17, 1925 46.9°F — Jul 3, 1901 0.86 in — Jul 8, 1974
August 111.9°F — Aug 16, 2020 48.0°F — Aug 13, 1921 0.67 in — Aug 29, 1953
September 116.1°F — Sep 6, 2022 44.1°F — Sep 12, 1893 3.13 in — Sep 12, 1918
October 102.9°F — Oct 3, 2024 34.0°F — Oct 28, 1946 5.44 in — Oct 24, 2021
November 86.0°F — Nov 1, 1966 27.0°F — Nov 28, 1880 3.02 in — Nov 17, 1885
December 72.0°F — Dec 1, 2021 17.1°F — Dec 11, 1932 3.34 in — Dec 31, 1890

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