Best year round weather in Northern California (San Jose, Oakland: house, living)

[Hawk J]

Coyote Lake...

[mrazyattic]

Personally I love Hayward's climate.

[04kL4nD]

Oakland and Fremont have the best weather in the Bay imo

[Hawk J]

Casa De Fruta...

[Chimérique]

Silicon Valley/San Jose for sure. Way less fog/marine layer then any of the coastal locations and much less rain than the coastal locations. It has much more consistent sun than coastal locations.

Daytime summers rarely need a/c. San Jose has a "real summer" compared to coastal locations. It's the perfect climate maybe more so than the Los Angeles Basin because they get more rain than LA and much less smog.

LA is more likely to get a hotter and longer lasting heat wave in the summer and LA's is more likely to experience humidity and high temps than San Jose. LA can have a week of 90 degree temps in Jan; San Jose is too far north to get the really warm temps in the winter - this maybe a plus for some.

Some may say that San Jose gets a little too cold at night - in the summer because of the marine layer - but still warmer than SF/Oakland/and coastal locations. In the winter, nighttime temps can be a little too cold by Cali Coastal Climate standards - Ten degrees cooler than LA. Five degrees cooler than SF. But, night time temps are probably the same or a little warmer than the upper northern coast from Ft. Bragg up to the coastal border.

Oakland would be my second choice, but it gets more marine layer/fog than San Jose and rarely warms up into the mid's 80's like San Jose can. Winters are almost identical, very little difference worth mentioning.

[04kL4nD]

I dunno. Year round 60-75 temps are perfect for me. I lived in San Diego and thought it was too hot in the summer- go figure

[MtnSurfer]

Scotts Valley or San Jose. Scotts Valley is close enough to Santa Cruz but gets less fog during the Summer. This is similar to Carmel Valley being sunnier/warmer than Monterey during Summer fog season. Since the cooler fog is a coastal phenomenon you don't have to drive very far to get out of it. I prefer a cooler Summer and moderate Winter right along the coast. But I know its not everyone's ideal pattern. Compared to the weather in other parts of the country or even inland CA anywhere relatively near the coast has moderate, mild weather.

Average Weather for Scotts Valley, CA - Temperature and Precipitation

Average Weather for San Jose, CA - Temperature and Precipitation

[RMP500]

I used to live in Oakland and yes, weather is fine, but overall it's one big ****hole to live in.

I mean, it's OK if you stick to your good side of town, but venture out or mess up and it can cost you your life.

Not interested in the Oaktown pushers but thanks for the input. There is no amount of good weather in that town that matters.

[MtnSurfer]

Santa Rosa, Petaluma and other towns just north of SF (Wine Country) are nice also. I have family in Santa Rosa who moved there from Orange County ~ 15 years ago and very happy there.

Average Weather for Santa Rosa, CA - Temperature and Precipitation

I disagree with far NorCal coast being mild. That pattern is closer to the PNW and much cooler than Monterey or Santa Cruz for example. Sure its mild compared to the East Coast. But the fog is very heavy hence the great Redwoods and green. If you go that far north Brookings, OR actually has better weather and is known as the Banana Belt of the Southern OR and NorCal coasts. http://www.southernoregon.com/brookings/.

[OwlKaMyst]

Santa Rosa, Petaluma and other towns just north of SF (Wine Country) are nice also. I have family in Santa Rosa who moved there from Orange County ~ 15 years ago and very happy there.

It's a quarter to 10am, I'm sitting on the porch of my home in the Ukaih valley. The sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky. And while the temperature is supposedly 52 degrees, it feels a lot warmer.