Warm-summer Mediterranean
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles County, California · Population 3.9M · 115 ft elevation
Living in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has a warm-summer mediterranean climate: pleasantly warm summers (July highs around 78°F) and very mild winters (January lows around 48°F).
Precipitation is dry at about 14″ a year, and it essentially never sees snow.
Skies are exceptionally sunny (84% of possible sunshine). It never gets truly muggy.
Air quality is poor: a median AQI of 74, with about 98 unhealthy-air days in the latest year.
There is plenty to explore outdoors around Los Angeles: about 18% of the land within 30 miles is public (parks, national forest and the like), and the terrain rises and falls about 4,000 ft around town.
Los Angeles at a glance
- Population
- 3.9M
- Elevation
- 115 ft
- Average daily high
- 72°F67th percentile
- Average daily low
- 55°F83th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 14″8th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 0″0th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 3,762 hrs96th percentile
- Median AQI
- 7498th percentile
- Median home value
- $880k95th percentile
- Median rent
- $1,879/mo83th percentile
- Median household income
- $80k56th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 0.66%22th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 13.3%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 8.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 7.9%
- Homes with broadband
- 91%49th percentile
- Walkability index
- 14.896th percentile
- Average commute
- 31 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 48%56th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 72%
- Violent crime rate
- 670 per 100k93th percentile
- Property crime rate
- 2,253 per 100k
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 10093th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8483th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 2%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 18%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 3,970 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 67°F | 48°F | 3.3″ | — | 239 hrs |
| Feb | 66°F | 48°F | 3.5″ | — | 227 hrs |
| Mar | 68°F | 51°F | 2.2″ | — | 290 hrs |
| Apr | 71°F | 53°F | 0.6″ | — | 317 hrs |
| May | 72°F | 57°F | 0.4″ | — | 364 hrs |
| Jun | 75°F | 60°F | 0.1″ | — | 386 hrs |
| Jul | 78°F | 63°F | 0.0″ | — | 408 hrs |
| Aug | 79°F | 64°F | 0.0″ | — | 395 hrs |
| Sep | 78°F | 62°F | 0.1″ | — | 342 hrs |
| Oct | 76°F | 58°F | 0.6″ | — | 304 hrs |
| Nov | 71°F | 52°F | 0.9″ | — | 258 hrs |
| Dec | 66°F | 47°F | 2.5″ | — | 233 hrs |
Near Los Angeles
- Culver City, CA · 40k
- Ladera Heights, CA · 7.2k
- Marina del Rey, CA · 8.8k
- View Park-Windsor Hills, CA · 12k
- Beverly Hills, CA · 32k
- Santa Monica, CA · 92k
- West Hollywood, CA · 35k
- Inglewood, CA · 106k
Largest places in California
- San Diego, CA · 1.4M
- San Jose, CA · 990k
- San Francisco, CA · 836k
- Fresno, CA · 544k
- Sacramento, CA · 525k
- Long Beach, CA · 458k
- Oakland, CA · 438k
- Bakersfield, CA · 408k
Sources: NOAA climate normals, NASA POWER, EPA air quality, U.S. Census Bureau, FEMA, FBI, EPA walkability and EDFacts. Methodology