Overview of California: Climate

The state's climate varies from temperate at the coast to the brutal winters of the mountains to one of the world's hottest regions in the deserts. Rainfall is more common in the northern part of the state than in the south, and snow is rare except in the mountains. Read More »

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Overview of California: Climate is based on California by Ryan Holliday, Eric Polk, Eco84, Ivo Louppen, Globe-trotter, PerryPlanet, Risto Reipas, Coolcaesar, iGuide and others. Travel guides are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.