Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sausalito, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is San Francisco Dwtn, CA, 7 miles southeast of Sausalito at 150 feet. September is the warmest, with an average high of 70°F and low of 56°F; January is the coolest, at 58°F and 47°F. December is the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 23.0 inches over 45 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 3 days a year, almost all from September. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 23.0 inches is more than at 160 of the 226 California stations used on this site (71%). Tiburon, 3 miles northeast, has its own station (Richmond, CA): 24.5 inches a year, 1.5 more than here, and a September average high of 75°F against 70°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Richmond, CA, 7 miles northeast, averaged 66°F in August and September and 53°F in January over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the San Francisco tide gauge, 4 miles from Sausalito, has risen 0.78 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1897 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 37 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 172 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sausalito: 138 floods, 15 heavy rain events, 8 lightning strikes, 6 thunderstorm wind reports and 5 flash floods. They killed 1 person and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $387,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on December 14, 2024. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 163 have had fewer than Sausalito.

Flood insurance policyholders in Sausalito's ZIP code 94965 have filed 77 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $1.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1986: 11 claims (14% of all) and $29,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 11. The year with the most claims was 1998, with 15. 30% 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, 288 have fewer than Sausalito.