Central Coast Drainage
Bay Area and the central coast — marine-dominated.
Climate divisions are broad reporting areas. Golden State Weather's eighteen terrain regions nest inside them imperfectly but usefully: the division supplies the statewide frame, while the region explains which range, gap, basin or coastline makes one station differ from the next.
California map highlighting Central Coast Drainage.
2 terrain regions, 12 stations. Atlas regions assigned to CA-4.
The atlas station sample
PRO · NOT AN AREAL AVERAGEThese figures summarize the named NOAA stations attached to this site's places inside the division. They are useful for comparing its internal spread, but they are not NCEI's official gridded or area-weighted divisional series. Mountains and cities are intentionally over-represented because this is a terrain atlas.
12Atlas stations
14.6–44.5″Annual precipitation
58.8–72.8°FJuly mean
26–721ftStation elevation
| Place | Region | Elev ft | Jan mean | Jul mean | Annual precip | Snow | Nov–Apr share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rosa | San Francisco Bay Area | 167 | 49.0° | 66.8° | 31.5″ | — | 89% |
| Oakland | San Francisco Bay Area | 43 | 52.5° | 64.1° | 22.6″ | — | 90% |
| San Francisco | San Francisco Bay Area | 52 | 52.2° | 60.3° | 22.9″ | — | 91% |
| Livermore | San Francisco Bay Area | 486 | 47.9° | 72.8° | 14.6″ | — | 90% |
| Half Moon Bay | San Francisco Bay Area | 69 | 51.4° | 58.8° | 26.0″ | — | 88% |
| San Jose | San Francisco Bay Area | 82 | 51.1° | 70.7° | 16.1″ | — | 90% |
| Santa Cruz | Central Coast | 33 | 52.0° | 64.3° | 30.6″ | — | 92% |
| Salinas | Central Coast | 52 | 52.3° | 62.4° | 15.4″ | — | 92% |
| Monterey | Central Coast | 26 | 51.2° | 60.1° | 17.1″ | — | 90% |
| Big Sur | Central Coast | 190 | 51.5° | 63.0° | 44.5″ | — | 92% |
| Paso Robles | Central Coast | 721 | 48.0° | 72.0° | 15.3″ | — | 92% |
| San Luis Obispo | Central Coast | 233 | 54.5° | 66.2° | 22.4″ | — | 93% |