What the weather actually does to you

Near-perfect year round, close to literally: never hot, never cold, almost never wet. The only interruption is a couple of wet weeks in winter and the marine layer on late-spring mornings.

Warmer summers than PLNU or Pepperdine, but its eight on-campus courts are usable essentially every day from April through November.

July and August afternoons at 93–95°F push play to early morning or after 6pm. Andulka Park's stadium and clay courts stay open until 9:30–10pm most weekdays, which is exactly the adjustment people make in Riverside.

From both ends: freezing January nights and 96°F Augusts with no evening relief, plus rain in every single month. Not a coincidence: Baylor is also the only school on this list with indoor courts (Hawkins Indoor, 6 courts). That facility exists because of this table.

Never averages above 76 or below 65 for a daily high, all year. The honest caveat: "May Gray" and "June Gloom" keep mornings overcast through late spring, hitting this campus harder than anywhere else on the list because it sits directly on the water.

Sources: NOAA 1991–2020 normals (temperature) via Current Results; rainfall from Weather Spark, whose independent temperature series matched NOAA within 1–2°F every month.

June through September average 87–95°F, but nights drop hard: a roughly 30°F day-to-night swing in summer is normal, so mornings and evenings are genuinely pleasant even in August. This is dry heat, not Waco's humid version of the same number.

Sources: Current Results (NOAA 1991–2020) and US Climate Data, two independent series matching within 1°F every month.

Cloud cover runs 10–13% June through September, 38–41% December through February. July, August and September are effectively rainless.

Sources: Weather Spark (La Mirada), cross-checked against NOAA 1991–2020 normals for Anaheim, 7 miles southeast: Anaheim runs 3–4°F warmer in summer, consistent with being slightly further inland.

10°F between the coolest and warmest month, all year. Skies are clearest in August (~90% clear); February is cloudiest (~42% overcast). Rain is concentrated: December through March is 11.5 of the 14.5 annual inches.

Sources: Weather Spark (Malibu), cross-checked against Santa Monica (13 miles east), agreeing within 1–3°F. The Santa Monica series is a 2010–2019 average, not a 1991–2020 normal, so it's a sanity check rather than a like-for-like comparison.

January lows average 35°F, so freezing nights happen. Summer lows only fall to 74°F, meaning no overnight relief, unlike Riverside. Rain falls in every month, peaking in May at 4.58in, and central Texas sits in a severe-thunderstorm and hail corridor in spring that the monthly average does not convey.

Sources: US Climate Data (Waco), cross-checked against Climates to Travel 1991–2020 normals: January mean 47.5 vs 47.0 here, July mean 85.6 vs 84.5 here. Consistent.

The only California school where winter days average under 60°F. Warmest month is September, not August, a classic Bay Area pattern. Summers are bone dry, July averages essentially zero rain.

Sources: Current Results (NOAA 1991–2020) and US Climate Data, matching within 1–2°F every month.

Overcast 71–75% of the time from November through March. November alone (8.3in) out-rains San Diego's entire year (9.8in).

Sources: Weather Spark (Puyallup), cross-checked against NOAA 1991–2020 normals for Seattle, agreeing within 1–2°F.