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Yes, compared to Oakland's, Sacramento summers are hot. Which is good. It's not outrageously hot like the Inland Empire, Vegas or Phoenix which are miseably hot despite the dry heat talk. It's also not hot in the terrible muggy hot 'lanta and Florida sort of hot. It's simply a good heat signifying summer and a pleasure to be outside.
Good and helpful post. I will add, since I started really paying attention to Sacramento summers in comparison to the rest of the U.S.A and now I always clarify......
Yes, Sacramento summers are hot compared to Oakland but not in the late night and A.M hours till at least Noon.
If fact, Sacramento summers temps and weather is more like Oakland in the late night and A.M. hours till at least Noon. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER. THAT IS A FACT.
I think it is very important to make this distinction, and I'll telly you why. When Sacramento doesn't get is usual doze of daily cool coastal air and temps.....we immediacy notice it and sort of freak out. If and when the temp doesn't go below 65F in the morning we freak out......we think it's muggy and hot. Some of us don't realize how lucky we are, and how crucial it is that we get that significantly huge cool down daily (20-30 degrees) in the summer.
Good and helpful post. By I will add, since I started really paying attention to Sacramento summers in comparison to the rest of the U.S.A and now I always clarify......
Yes, Sacramento summers are hot compared to Oakland but not in the late night and A.M hours till at least Noon.
If fact, Sacramento summers temps and weather is more like Oakland in the late night and A.M. hours till at least Noon. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER. THAT IS A FACT.
I think it is very important to make this distinction, and I'll telly you why. When Sacramento doesn't get is usual doze of daily cool coastal air and temps.....we immediacy notice it and sort of freak out. If and when the temp doesn't go below 65F in the morning we freak out......we think it's muggy and hot. Some of us don't realize how lucky we are, and how crucial it is that we get that significantly huge cool down daily (20-30 degrees) in the summer.
Still, the question is what are some interesting things to do in Sacramento in the city? What do you show visitors?
Then why the hell are you acting like Sacramento is only mildly warmer than Oakland?
Really? We telling fairy tales now?
No, I'm not telling fairy tales.
I observe, record, and pay attention to observed reportable weather and temps. I don't listen to anecdotal bias such as yours.
You ignore the daily hourly weather in Sacramento and focus on one thing the high for the day....which does not give you an accurate picture of what the weather is like through the day and night in Sacramento in the summer.
Whatever you say but I dont know or nor have I ever heard of a single person from here whose ever gone to Sacramento to 'enjoy' the summer weather.
LOL
You are very wrong. Yes, in the middle of the summer I have friends and family that come from all over the Bay Area not only to visit me, , but because of the weather.
They want the warmer sunnier days. And a big hit with them is to raft down the American River in the heart of Sacramento, something you can't do in the Bay Area.
Fresh clean cold snow melt water in the middle of Sacramento along with bright sun and 90F temps, dry 10% humidity, in the late afternoon.
You are very wrong. Yes, in the middle of the summer I have friends and family that come from all over the Bay Area not only to visit me, , but because of the weather.
They want the warmer sunnier days. And a big hit with them is to raft down the American River in the heart of Sacramento, something you can't do in the Bay Area.
Fresh clean cold snow melt water in the middle of Sacramento along with bright sun and 90F + temps in the late afternoon.
Do people go tubing? Do they allow you to do it with a good supply of beer?
One interesting development is that the center for the Bay Area is likely to shift southwards to San Jose in the next decade. The primary industry for the Bay Area is much more concentrated in San Jose and a primary issue had been that one of the main issues has been the terrible commute from the East Bay to San Jose. However, BART reaching downtown San Jose is a massive shift, along with electrified Caltrain and an expanded VTA light rail (and to some extent, the high speed rail line which seems to have been reconfigured into an extremely long range commuter rail for San Jose). These are just the transit expansions, but coupled with the denser housing construction in San Jose, and the sponsorship of civic art and culture institutions within the city and that the domestic and foreign migrant population into the area generally favor new construction, well, you got a stew going.
I actually really like San Jose especially the old neighborhoods and its downtown and it's very cool that San Jose State is in the heart of the downtown and it is integrated. More so than Long Beach State is integrated with Long Beach.....but I don't know that for a fact.
Is there a college/university in the heart of Oakland?
I like Oakland for many reasons, the urban East Bay.....Really from Richmond to Berkeley to Oakland to Hayward is like one big city.
Cal - University of California, Berkeley is in the heart of Berkeley and well integrated. Not sure of how well the colleges in Oakland are integrated or how well Cal State Hayward is integrated with Hayward.
I still call it Cal State Hayward....though they changed the name to East Bay.....ughh, ugly name.
Much of the neighborhoods of Oakland looks like old Hollywood...the neighborhoods immediately up from downtown and the Oakland Hills look like LA/Hollywood. The flats of the older parts of San Jose look like the flats of the older parts of Los Angeles/Hollywood. All near identical looking. Sacramento's older neighborhoods look like the flats of San Jose and Los Angeles/Hollywood.....but with more and bigger trees.
I know this well because I lived in Hollywood: East, Central and West Hollywood....the Hills, and Los Feliz/Silverlake.
What part town are you from or live in now.......you don't have to answer if you don't want to.
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, but because of the weather. 
