For prior seasons, click here.
Santa Fe Dam visitor center on a rain day. Los Angeles Almanac Photo.
Also see:
-- Historic Santa Fe Dam (Irwindale, San Gabriel Valley) Seasonal Rainfall
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Downtown Los Angeles
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Beverly Hills
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Burbank
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Claremont
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Hawthorne
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Lancaster
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Long Beach
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Los Angeles International Airport
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Palmdale
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Pasadena
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Sandberg
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Santa Catalina Island
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Santa Clarita
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Santa Monica
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Torrance
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Van Nuys, Los Angeles
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Westwood, Los Angeles
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Whittier
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
The Almanac now monitors rainfall for Beverly Hills and Torrance.
NOTE: When most weather reporting sources cite weather in Los Angeles (without specifying where, exactly, in Los Angeles), these numbers are typically for the Downtown Los Angeles weather station (actually located on the USC campus).
How Much Water is One Inch of Rain?
This station was reported to have been vandalized in late July 2023 and had been down until January 2024. The Los Angeles County Fire Department operates the Santa Fe Dam weather station and worked to replace equipment. Reporting once again resumed at 11:47 a.m., Jan. 17, 2024.
Rainfall measured in inches
| Date (April) | Rainfall Measured for Day | Month's Cumulative Rainfall Measured |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| 13 | 0.16 | 0.26 |
| 14 | 0.58 | 0.84 |
Monthly rainfall totals for previous seasons are found at Monthly Rainfall for Santa Fe Dam.
Rainfall measured in inches
NOTE: Rainfall normals were updated on May 4, 2021.†
| Month | Rainfall For Month | Rainfall For Season | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measured for Month | Monthly Normal† | Deviation from Monthly Normal | Measured for Season-to-Date | Season Normal-to-Date† | Deviation from Season Normal-to-Date | |
| Jul 2023 | 0.00‡ | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.00 | 0.06 | -0.06 |
| Aug 2023 | See note‡ | 0.14 | --- | See note‡ | 0.20 | --- |
| Sep 2023 | See note‡ | 0.14 | --- | See note‡ | 0.34 | --- |
| Oct 2023 | See note‡ | 0.67 | --- | See note‡ | 1.01 | --- |
| Nov 2023 | See note‡ | 1.08 | --- | See note‡ | 2.09 | --- |
| Dec 2023 | See note‡ | 2.54 | --- | See note‡ | 4.63 | --- |
| Month | Rainfall For Month | Rainfall For Season | ||||
| Measured for Month | Monthly Normal† | Deviation from Monthly Normal | Measured for Season-to-Date | Season Normal-to-Date† | Deviation from Season Normal-to-Date | |
| Jan 2024 | 1.95‡ | 3.82 | -1.87 | 1.95 | 8.45 | -6.50 |
| Feb 2024 | 14.04 | 3.68 | +10.36 | 15.99 | 12.13 | +3.86 |
| Mar 2024 | 4.48 | 2.43 | +2.05 | 20.47 | 14.56 | +5.91 |
| Apr 2024 | -Pending- | 0.98 | --- | -Pending- | 15.54 | --- |
| May 2024 | -Pending- | 0.64 | --- | -Pending- | 16.18 | --- |
| Jun 2024 | -Pending- | 0.08 | --- | -Pending- | 16.26 | --- |
† Although normals are established by the National Centers For Environmental Information, based upon averages for rainfall seasons 1991 through 2020 (updated May 4, 2021), this station's data only goes back to 1993. NCEI does not provide normals for this station. Consequently, the Almanac calculated unofficial normals for this station from the 23-year period of 1993-2020 (as close to NCEI's calculation period as possible), adjusting for unusual outlier amounts and missing data. Total season normal for this station is 16.26 inches.
‡ No rainfall data was recorded from July 25, 2023 through Jan. 17, 2024 due to weather-monitoring equipment that had to be replaced as a result of vandalism.
Source: National Weather Service Forecast Office, Los Angeles/Oxnard and National Centers for Environmental Information.
