Climate change in San Diego, California
Climate change is affecting locations like San Diego in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include drought, potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, and more frequent fire weather.
Explore these pages to learn how people in San Diego are at risk in a warming world.
San Diego's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting San Diego in summer
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
Warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers
Warming boosts moisture, making storms wetter, stronger, and costlier.
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More fire weather
Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.
Hotter summers
Hotter summers bring more dangerous heat, higher energy bills, and worse wildfire.
More weather-related power outages
Extreme weather events put stress on aging energy infrastructure.
More graphics about San Diego and climate change
Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for San Diego, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.