Big Bear Lake
Transverse Ranges
Southern California's snow country, two hours from a beach that has never seen any.
80°FJuly mean high
24°FJanuary mean low
20.0″Annual precipitation
30.2°FAnnual range
Source station: BIG BEAR LAKE, CA US (USC00040741), 6,753 ft, 0.3 mi from Big Bear Lake. NOAA/NCEI 1991–2020 monthly normals.
34.244°N, 116.911°W in Transverse Ranges.
34.244°N, 116.911°W. In Transverse Ranges.
The next three days
NATIONAL BLEND OF MODELSDRAWN ON REQUESTThe year, in one picture
NOAA/NCEI 1991–2020 NORMALSThe interactive monthly temperature and precipitation chart loads with JavaScript; the values are tabulated below.
Mean daily high
Mean daily low
Monthly precipitation
Month by month
JANUARY AND JULY ARE FREE| Month | Mean high | Mean low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Share of year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 46° | 24° | 34.9° | 4.51″ | 13.4″ | 23% |
| Jul | 80° | 50° | 65.1° | 0.69″ | — | 3% |
| Year | 80° | 24° | 48.0° | 19.98″ | 58.6″ | 100% |
Where it sits among the fifty-seven
RANKED AGAINST EVERY OTHER PLACE ON THE SITE24th of 5720.0 inches a year.WETTEST41st of 57A mean high of 80°F.HOTTEST JULY8th of 57A mean low of 24°F.COLDEST JANUARY NIGHTS2nd of 576,752 feet.HIGHEST24th of 5730.2°F between July and January.WIDEST ANNUAL RANGE
Nearby, and nothing like it
The three places within 90 miles of Big Bear Lake whose climate differs most — usually because something stands between them.