Climate and average weather in Redlands

In Redlands, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are mild, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: early April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Redlands typically varies from 41°F to 89°F, and is rarely below 33°F or above 96°F. August is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Redlands for warm-weather activities are from early April to late June and mid September to late November.

Hottest
Aug
89°
Coldest
Dec
41°
Wettest
Feb
3.6 in
Driest
Jun
0.1 in
Rain / yr
15.5 in
44 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,358 ft
34.1°N
Clearest
Aug
14% cloud

Redlands is city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Density
755/km²
people per km²
Founded
1888

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Redlands weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Redlands, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from June 15 to September 30, with daily high temperatures above 81°F. The hottest month of the year in Redlands is August, with an average high of 89°F and low of 66°F.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 25 to March 14, with daily high temperatures below 65°F. The coldest month of the year in Redlands is December, with an average low of 41°F and high of 60°F.

Days typically run about 21°F warmer than nights year-round.

40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan6041
Feb6142
Mar6445
Apr6948
May7453
Jun8259
Jul8765
Aug8966
Sep8562
Oct7754
Nov6746
Dec6041

Average hourly temperature in Redlands

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 89°F, and coldest before dawn in December, near 41°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Redlands weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan60° / 41°2.96.10.6105.5
Feb61° / 42°3.66.81.110.75.5
Mar64° / 45°2.26.20.811.76.6
Apr69° / 48°1.13.90.312.87.7
May74° / 53°0.52.6013.78.6
Jun82° / 59°0.10.7014.28.2
Jul87° / 65°0.52.60146.0
Aug89° / 66°0.42.8013.35.5
Sep85° / 62°0.31.8012.27.0
Oct77° / 54°0.72.4011.18.7
Nov67° / 46°1.03.10.210.27.7
Dec60° / 41°2.250.49.85.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Redlands gets about 15.5 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.7 months, from around Nov 26 to Apr 16, peaking in February at about 27% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 20.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 3.6 in over about 7 wet days; June is the driest, with 0.1 in.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 22 · 27%Jun 20 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb247
Mar216
Apr134
May93
Jun31
Jul83
Aug93
Sep62
Oct82
Nov103
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Redlands collects about 15.5 in of rain across 44 wet days — roughly 1.3 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 3.6 in, while June is the driest at just 0.1 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

00.511.522.533.544.5JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2.93.62.21.10.50.10.50.40.30.71.02.2
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2.961
Feb3.671
Mar2.261
Apr1.140
May0.530
Jun0.110
Jul0.530
Aug0.430
Sep0.320
Oct0.720
Nov1.030
Dec2.250

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Redlands, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 13 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around November 12. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 13 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around May 12. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 42% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 17 · 95%Feb 22 · 57%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6238
Feb5842
Mar6436
Apr7327
May8020
Jun919
Jul919
Aug946
Sep937
Oct8515
Nov7624
Dec6535

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 15, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.06:594:57
Feb10.76:415:25
Mar11.76:065:50
Apr12.85:236:14
May13.74:526:38
Jun14.24:416:57
Jul14.04:526:56
Aug13.35:146:31
Sep12.25:375:49
Oct11.16:005:08
Nov10.26:284:40
Dec9.86:534:37

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Redlands averages about 20 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around May 16 to Nov 6. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 13 sunny days — about 49% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2027 daysFeb 2612 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr17Bright
May21Bright
Jun25Brilliant
Jul25Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep26Brilliant
Oct23Bright
Nov19Bright
Dec16Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Redlands, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 14% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 26 · 100%Jul 28 · 81%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May97300
Jun881110
Jul5728122
Aug5629141
Sep781850
Oct96310
Nov100000
Dec100000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Redlands is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 mphcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeDec 24 · 4 mphJul 31 · 3 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Redlands

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Redlands throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid April, Redlands is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Redlands for general outdoor tourist activities run from early April to late June and again from mid September to late November, with a peak score in the last week of May.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 31 · 8.9

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan5.5good
Feb5.5good
Mar6.5good
Apr7.7ideal
May8.6ideal
Jun8.2ideal
Jul6.0good
Aug5.6good
Sep7.0good
Oct8.6ideal
Nov7.6ideal
Dec5.6good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Redlands for hot-weather activities is from late May to late October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 23 · 9.2

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Redlands, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 89°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 60°F), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Redlands sees daytime highs around 89°F and nights near 66°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Redlands by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Redlands peaks around June 23 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 23UV 11Dec 16UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar5High
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Redlands

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan30
Feb4.50
Mar5.50
Apr74
May84.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct5.50
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Redlands by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Redlands is worst in September — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 5.4× the cleanest month (December, 7 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateGoodSep 1437 µg/m³Dec 207 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb9Good
Mar11Good
Apr10Good
May8Good
Jun19Moderate
Jul12Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep40Poor
Oct10Good
Nov8Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free day

Redlands is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan960
Feb970
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec950

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Redlands banks about 4,515 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan17
Feb38
Mar134
Apr246
May424
Jun612
Jul808
Aug843
Sep702
Oct476
Nov198
Dec17

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Redlands receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.9 and 8.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 29. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.0 kWh/m² — roughly 63% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 218.3 kWhDec 172.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb4.0Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr6.8Intense
May7.5Intense
Jun8.3Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct4.9Bright
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec3.0Moderate

Where is Redlands?

Redlands sits at 34.1°N, 117.2°W, 1,358 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Loma Linda, 4.3 mi away.

Topography around Redlands

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Redlands.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Redlands has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 561 ft around an average of 1,427 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,902 ft; within 50 miles, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 11,417 ft.

The land around Redlands is covered by artificial surfaces (69%) and trees (21%) within 2 miles, artificial surfaces (32%), grassland (25%) and shrubs (23%) within 10 miles, and shrubs (30%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
561 ft
10 miles
4,902 ft
50 miles
11,417 ft
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Loma Linda 4.3 mi · Highland 5.0 mi · San Bernardino 6.8 mi · Colton 7.5 mi · Yucaipa 8.1 mi · Moreno Valley 8.7 mi · Rialto 11 mi · Bloomington 12 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Redlands (34.0556°, -117.1825°, elevation 1,358 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).