Lone Pine
Eastern Sierra & Owens Valley
Directly beneath Mount Whitney, and one of the driest inhabited valleys in the country.
102°FJuly mean high
30°FJanuary mean low
5.4″Annual precipitation
40.8°FAnnual range
Source station: INDEPENDENCE, CA US (USC00044232), 3,950 ft, 15.4 mi from Lone Pine, 223 ft higher. NOAA/NCEI 1991–2020 monthly normals.
36.606°N, 118.063°W in Eastern Sierra & Owens Valley.
36.606°N, 118.063°W. In Eastern Sierra & Owens Valley.
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 | 58° | 30° | 43.9° | 1.36″ | — | 25% |
| Jul | 102° | 67° | 84.7° | 0.11″ | — | 2% |
| Year | 102° | 29° | 62.9° | 5.42″ | — | 100% |
Where it sits among the fifty-seven
RANKED AGAINST EVERY OTHER PLACE ON THE SITE50th of 575.4 inches a year.WETTEST6th of 57A mean high of 102°F.HOTTEST JULY11th of 57A mean low of 30°F.COLDEST JANUARY NIGHTS15th of 573,727 feet.HIGHEST3rd of 5740.8°F between July and January.WIDEST ANNUAL RANGE
Nearby, and nothing like it
The three places within 90 miles of Lone Pine whose climate differs most — usually because something stands between them.