Burlingame weather? (San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco: condo, home, middle schools)

[baltik]

We are a young couple in our early 30s and currently live in San Francisco, starting our search in suburbia for our first real home (we currently own a condo in the city). As such our priorities are weather and schools while maintaining an easy commute into SF. Since we aren't quite up to snuff to Hillsborough prices - Burlingame seems to have good elementary/middle schools and a reasonable commute. However after checking average temperatures in Burlingame - June-August highs appear to hover right around 70, inline with SF averages and rather disappointing to us. I am sure the lack of fog makes a difference but can anyone who lives in burlingame confirm what the temperatures are like and if there are important microclimates to consider (el camino side vs 280 side)

thanks

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Burlingame is less foggy and windy than the Outer Lands but can be a bit more windy and foggy, at times, than South Beach. If you really want to free yourself from Sunset Western Garden Guide Zone 17, you need to cross the East Bay Hills or get into the far South or North Bay.

[twins4lynn]

Originally Posted by baltik

We are a young couple in our early 30s and currently live in San Francisco, starting our search in suburbia for our first real home (we currently own a condo in the city). As such our priorities are weather and schools while maintaining an easy commute into SF. Since we aren't quite up to snuff to Hillsborough prices - Burlingame seems to have good elementary/middle schools and a reasonable commute. However after checking average temperatures in Burlingame - June-August highs appear to hover right around 70, inline with SF averages and rather disappointing to us. I am sure the lack of fog makes a difference but can anyone who lives in burlingame confirm what the temperatures are like and if there are important microclimates to consider (el camino side vs 280 side)

thanks

That seems to be about right. The average temp in the summer months would be around 70, and a bit higher average in September and early October. I really don't notice a great difference between the weather up in the hills compared to east of El Camino. If it's windy up near 280, it's windy down by 101.

If you're looking for hot weather, this isn't the place for you. If you want a comfortable climate, you'd be happy here.

[jman650]

Originally Posted by twins4lynn

That seems to be about right. The average temp in the summer months would be around 70, and a bit higher average in September and early October. I really don't notice a great difference between the weather up in the hills compared to east of El Camino. If it's windy up near 280, it's windy down by 101.

If you're looking for hot weather, this isn't the place for you. If you want a comfortable climate, you'd be happy here.

Well-stated. Yeah, Burlingame doesn't really have micro-climates that vary within its borders a whole lot, but the closer you get to Millbrae the more likely your chances of wind are. And the flatlands (between Trousdale, El Camino, Peninsula Ave and 101) have some of the most comfortable weather you will find anywhere. If you prefer something warmer though, you should look south of Belmont (which progressively gets warmer all the way down to Gilroy) and at the inland East Bay (also gets warmer the further out you go).

Its hard to advise anyone on temperatures very much lately b/c in the past couple years our weather (region-wide) has not been following its normal patterns. Like right now for example, late May is normally around 75-80° instead of this frigid, windy weather. But typically Burlingame/San Mateo will hover in the low-mid 70's a lot of the year.

[mayorhaggar]

Unless you work somewhere like Silicon Valley, what about the East Bay, you could live somewhere like Walnut Creek or Lafayette and get warmer weather and pay less. The further south you go on the Peninsula, the warmer it gets...San Jose is usually a lot warmer than SF in the summer.

[andyadhi01]

Originally Posted by baltik

June-August highs appear to hover right around 70, inline with SF averages and rather disappointing to us.

What part of SF gets average temp around 70s? I think the temp in SF hits 70 only 15 days or so in a year and that too on the warmer side. May is supposedly one of the warmest/sunny month of the year but over here temp hasn't crossed 60, let alone 70s. Its almost always 50s, windy and foggy. And of course it will be even worse from June-September when the permanent fog layer builds up!

Only way to escape ugly SF weather is to move to Redwood city or further south.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by andyadhi01

What part of SF gets average temp around 70s? I think the temp in SF hits 70 only 15 days or so in a year and that too on the warmer side. May is supposedly one of the warmest/sunny month of the year but over here temp hasn't crossed 60, let alone 70s. Its almost always 50s, windy and foggy. And of course it will be even worse from June-September when the permanent fog layer builds up!

Only way to escape ugly SF weather is to move to Redwood city or further south.

I agree with that last sentence for sure. As for SF's official reporting station, which I believe has been Mission Dolores for about 25 years or so, the high temp "averages" at or above 70 for at least 60 days a year. Of course, that means it might just touch 70 for ten minutes and be in the 60s all day. But I'd say from the time I spend in the City, there are far more than 15 warm days a year (not at the coast). This year, in fact the last few years, have been much cooler than average along the entire west coast, but I remember some really hot years and hot summers a few years back too. I assume these up and down patterns come in waves and are not indicative of an entire climate shift, but they are annoying. At least it was warm in January!

I was walking in San Diego last night, and it was cold too! Meanwhile, it's 90F in Washington DC. Go figure.

[tstieber]

Oh, as for Burlingame, we usually find the main difference compared to SF is that there is less fog and less wind. It does get very windy along the 101, but when you go downtown, it's really calm and nice to walk around. I recently had dinner along the bayshore and it was really cold and windy when I got out. We went downtown to take a walk, and it was 70F and there was no breeze, and the restaurant patios were packed. I think that 70F temp is actually very pleasant when it's sunny and calm, and not so pleasant when it's foggy and windy.

[04kL4nD]

I think the temp in SF hits 70 only 15 days or so in a year and that too on the warmer side. May is supposedly one of the warmest/sunny month of the year but over here temp hasn't crossed 60, let alone 70s. Its almost always 50s, windy and foggy. And of course it will be even worse from June-September when the permanent fog layer builds up!

do you have stats to back up this nonsense, or do you want to wait for other people to call you out on this?

[andyadhi01]

Originally Posted by 04kL4nD

do you have stats to back up this nonsense, or do you want to wait for other people to call you out on this?

Of course!

Average Weather for San Francisco, CA - Temperature and Precipitation

BTW, I am sure you are smart enough to look it up yourself. You are just arguing for the heck of it. In any case, you can clearly see that the average high never hits 70! It only gets there during rare heat waves..So the actual number of 70 degree days is probably even less than 15 and that too it happens for few hours. On any typical day the temp average in SF is in 50s!! And if you have ever been here you would know that strong gusty wind and months of ever present fog makes it feel a lot colder than that.