Climate and average weather in Yucaipa

In Yucaipa, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: mid April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yucaipa typically varies from 39°F to 87°F, and is rarely below 31°F or above 94°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 Yucaipa for warm-weather activities are from mid April to late June and mid September to mid November.

Hottest
Aug
87°
Coldest
Dec
39°
Wettest
Feb
3.1 in
Driest
Jun
0.1 in
Rain / yr
13.9 in
46 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,618 ft
34.0°N
Clearest
Sep
14% cloud

Yucaipa is city in San Bernardino County, California.

Density
725/km²
people per km²
Founded
1989

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

Yucaipa 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 mid April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from June 11 to September 30, with daily high temperatures above 79°F. The hottest month of the year in Yucaipa is August, with an average high of 87°F and low of 65°F.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 24 to March 14, with daily high temperatures below 62°F. The coldest month of the year in Yucaipa is December, with an average low of 39°F and high of 57°F.

Days typically run about 21°F warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 23°F) in June.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan5739
Feb5840
Mar6242
Apr6645
May7351
Jun8158
Jul8764
Aug8765
Sep8361
Oct7452
Nov6444
Dec5739

Average hourly temperature in Yucaipa

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 87°F, and coldest before dawn in December, near 39°F.

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

Yucaipa 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
Jan57° / 39°2.66.11.1104.7
Feb58° / 40°3.17.31.410.74.7
Mar62° / 42°1.96.3111.75.9
Apr66° / 45°1.04.10.412.87.4
May73° / 51°0.52.9013.78.5
Jun81° / 58°0.10.9014.28.4
Jul87° / 64°0.52.80146.2
Aug87° / 65°0.43013.36.0
Sep83° / 61°0.31.7012.27.7
Oct74° / 52°0.62.4011.18.7
Nov64° / 44°0.93.30.210.27.2
Dec57° / 39°2.15.10.79.84.7

Chance of rain

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

Yucaipa gets about 13.9 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 4.6 months, from around Nov 28 to Apr 16, peaking in February at about 29% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 13.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 3.1 in over about 7 wet days; June is the driest, with 0.1 in. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 22 · 29%Jun 13 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb257
Mar216
Apr144
May93
Jun41
Jul93
Aug103
Sep62
Oct72
Nov113
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yucaipa collects about 13.9 in of rain across 46 wet days — roughly 1.2 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 3.1 in, while June is the driest at just 0.1 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 55% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

00.511.522.533.54JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2.63.11.91.00.50.10.50.40.30.60.92.1
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2.661
Feb3.171
Mar1.961
Apr1.040
May0.530
Jun0.110
Jul0.530
Aug0.430
Sep0.320
Oct0.620
Nov0.930
Dec2.151

Snow in Yucaipa

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Yucaipa averages about 5 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 8 to Apr 11 — about 4.1 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.4 day of snow and an estimated 3 in of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 10 in of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 20
Snow daysSnowfall (in)
Jan12
Feb13
Mar12
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec12

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yucaipa, 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 6 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around November 10. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 93% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 11 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around April 27. 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 10 · 95%Feb 21 · 56%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb5842
Mar6535
Apr7426
May8218
Jun928
Jul8911
Aug937
Sep937
Oct8614
Nov7525
Dec6436

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 16, 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)
Jan10.06:594:56
Feb10.76:415:25
Mar11.76:065:50
Apr12.85:236:14
May13.74:516:37
Jun14.24:416:56
Jul14.04:526:56
Aug13.35:146:31
Sep12.25:365:49
Oct11.15:595:07
Nov10.26:274:39
Dec9.86:524:37

Sunny days

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

Yucaipa 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 5.9 months, from around May 15 to Nov 9. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 13 sunny days — about 50% fewer than the September peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 1227 daysFeb 2512 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr18Bright
May21Bright
Jun25Brilliant
Jul25Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep27Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
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 Yucaipa, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 9% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 18 · 100%Jul 27 · 88%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May10000
Jun9631
Jul72189
Aug73198
Sep8992
Oct9910
Nov10000
Dec10000

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeDec 20 · 4 mphJul 26 · 3 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Yucaipa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late April, Yucaipa 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 Yucaipa for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid April to late June and again from mid September to mid November, with a peak score in the second week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 10 · 9.0

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
Jan4.7fair
Feb4.7fair
Mar5.9good
Apr7.4good
May8.5ideal
Jun8.3ideal
Jul6.3good
Aug6.0good
Sep7.7ideal
Oct8.7ideal
Nov7.1good
Dec4.8fair

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 Yucaipa for hot-weather activities is from late May to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 25 · 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 Yucaipa, 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 87°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 57°F), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Yucaipa sees daytime highs around 87°F and nights near 65°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Yucaipa 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 Yucaipa 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 Yucaipa

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 Yucaipa 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 Yucaipa 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 dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Yucaipa is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about January 1 to December 13 (347 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeJan 190%Dec 1390%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan922
Feb920
Mar960
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov980
Dec9018

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

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. Yucaipa banks about 3,990 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar57
Apr175
May370
Jun586
Jul789
Aug814
Sep656
Oct412
Nov130
Dec0

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.

Yucaipa receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.0 and 8.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 29. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.1 kWh/m² — roughly 63% less than the June peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 198.5 kWhDec 173.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.3Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr7.0Intense
May7.7Intense
Jun8.4Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct5.0Bright
Nov3.7Moderate
Dec3.1Moderate

Where is Yucaipa?

Yucaipa sits at 34.0°N, 117.0°W, 2,618 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Beaumont, 8.1 mi away.

Topography around Yucaipa

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Yucaipa has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,558 ft around an average of 2,700 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 9,577 ft; within 50 miles, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 11,404 ft.

The land around Yucaipa is covered by artificial surfaces (49%) within 2 miles, shrubs (39%) and grassland (26%) within 10 miles, and shrubs (30%) and bare terrain (21%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
1,558 ft
10 miles
9,577 ft
50 miles
11,404 ft
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Beaumont 8.1 mi · Redlands 8.1 mi · Highland 12 mi · Banning 12 mi · Loma Linda 12 mi · Moreno Valley 12 mi · San Bernardino 15 mi · Colton 16 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 Yucaipa (34.0336°, -117.0431°, elevation 2,618 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).