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PLACES & NORMALS

Fifty-seven places, chosen to span the gradients — not the population ranking.

NOAA/NCEI 1991 –2020 NORMALS

A list of California's biggest cities would be eight variations on coastal Southern California. This one is picked to make the state's gradients visible: Eureka against Redding for coast-to-interior temperature, Bishop against Blue Canyon for the rain shadow, Furnace Creek against Mount Wilson for what 5,000 feet does. Sort any column to find the extremes.

Place Region Elev ft Jan hi Jan lo Jul hi Jul lo Precip ″ Snow ″ Annual range Jul swing
NOAA/NCEI 1991–2020 monthly normals. Annual range is the July mean minus the January mean — how much the year moves. July swing is that month's mean high minus its mean low — how much a single summer day moves. The two together separate a marine climate from a continental one better than any single number.

The extremes in this table