San Diego County is one of a handful of locations on the planet blessed with a Mediterranean climate.
And while Sunny San Diego averages 146 sunny days a year, Fallbrook averages 264!
And Fallbrook’s beautiful Gird Valley, ringed by avocado groves, vineyards and citrus trees, is among the best of the best with primarily sunny days and little rain, absolutely no snow!
And Fallbrook’s beautiful Gird Valley, ringed by avocado groves, vineyards and citrus trees, is among the best of the best with primarily sunny days and little rain, absolutely no snow!
If we get a half an inch of rain in a month, that’s a really wet month for us! Fallbrook averages only 13.7 inches a year with most of that rain falling between January and March. But whenever the weather report says “rain,” do keep in mind that most of the time it rains at night. It’s “polite” rain–it seldom interferes with your plans.
Seriously, this has to be one of the world’s best kept secrets!
So, you can be curled up all cozy inside by the fire while it rains on a “winter” night in January, you can then enjoy absolutely gorgeous weather the next day–go golfing, hiking, cycling, swim in the heated pool, enjoy the spa–with not a cloud in the sky.
Also, San Diego’s weather records show fewer sunny days in May through October than in November through April. But that’s because during the summer, we do get fog along the coastline.
But here in Fallbrook, we are just far enough inland to sometimes see fog on a summer’s morning in Gird Valley but it burns off here long before it does on the coast. And that’s why San Diego has 146 sunny days each year but Fallbrook averages 264!
We are also close enough to the coast, about 17 miles, so we don’t toast in the summer. We’ll have lots of days in the mid to high 80s, low 90-degree days are rare but they do happen–sometimes even in November! High humidity? Extremely rare. We have dry heat here in San Diego, the best flip flop weather ever.
Rule of thumb: Fallbrook is 6 to 10 degrees warmer in the summer than the coast. Another ten miles inland and the temperature goes up another 6 to 10 degrees.
So, this is what the locals know: the best weather in Southern California is within 10 to 20 miles of the coast.
So, now you can see why, when we say “the weather is fabulous”, we really mean it!