Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Beverly Hills, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is U C L A, CA, 3 miles west of Beverly Hills at 430 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 79°F and low of 63°F; February is the coolest, at 67°F and 51°F. February is the wettest at 4.7 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 17.6 inches over 22 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from August to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 17.6 inches is more than at 126 of the 226 California stations used on this site (56%). Studio City, 5 miles north, has its own station (Burbank Valley Pump Plt, CA): 16.6 inches a year, 1.0 less than here, and an August average high of 88°F against 79°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, CA, 7 miles southwest, averaged 69°F in August and 58°F in January and March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Santa Monica tide gauge, 7 miles from Beverly Hills, has risen 0.60 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1933 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 28 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 42 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Beverly Hills: 29 flash floods, 9 thunderstorm wind reports, 3 floods and 1 lightning strike. They killed 1 person and injured 10, and the NWS estimated $312,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 60 mph, on September 21, 2007. February has had the most flash floods, 13 of 29. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 499 have had fewer than Beverly Hills.

Flood insurance policyholders in Beverly Hills's 3 ZIP codes have filed 501 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1980: 161 claims (32% of all) and $655,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 67 and California Atmospheric River in 2023 with 10. 49% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 399 have fewer than Beverly Hills.