Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Del Mar, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is San Diego Miramar NAS, CA, 10 miles southeast of Del Mar at 477 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 65°F; December is the coolest, at 67°F and 46°F. February is the wettest at 2.7 inches of precipitation on average and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 11.5 inches over 22 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 20 days a year, almost all from April to November. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 11.5 inches is more than at 54 of the 226 California stations used on this site (24%). Solana Beach, 2 miles north, has its own station (Carlsbad Palomar Airport, CA): 11.4 inches a year, the same as here, and an August average high of 76°F against 82°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station La Jolla, CA, 7 miles south, averaged 68°F in August and 58°F in January and February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the La Jolla tide gauge, 7 miles from Del Mar, has risen 0.80 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1924 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 39 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 44 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Del Mar: 15 floods, 13 flash floods, 8 lightning strikes, 6 thunderstorm wind reports and 2 heavy rain events. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $944,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 64 mph, on January 20, 2017. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 341 have had fewer than Del Mar.

Flood insurance policyholders in Del Mar's ZIP code 92014 have filed 139 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $1.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1983: 72 claims (52% of all) and $418,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 21 and Winter storm in 2010 with 12. 78% 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, 346 have fewer than Del Mar.