Tahoe City, California Tahoe City Tahoe City is positioned in California Tahoe City - Tahoe City County Placer County Tahoe City (formerly, Tahoe) is an unincorporated improve in Placer County, California. Tahoe City is positioned on Lake Tahoe, 14 miles (22.5 km) southeast of Donner Pass. It lies at an altitude of 6250 feet (1905 m). The site was surveyed in 1863, and Tahoe House was assembled in 1864. The Tahoe postal service opened in 1871, closed for a reconstructionin 1896, and changed its name to Tahoe City in 1949. The ZIP Code is 96145.
Tahoe City is combined with Sunnyside for census purposes into Sunnyside-Tahoe City census-designated place (CDP).
Tahoe City has a borderline Mediterranean (Koppen Csb)/Continental Mediterranean (Dsb) climate, with dry summers featuring very warm days and chilly evenings, plus extremely snowy, though not thermally harsh winters.
The annual snow flurry of 170.8 inches or 4.34 metres (median snow flurry is 145.8 inches or 3.70 metres) is remarkable for a place with only twelve days typically not topping freezing: it is indeed so heavy that the mean maximum snow depth is as high as 52 inches or 1.32 metres despite much melting and refreezing due to persistent freeze/thaw cycles.
As a comparison, higher, colder, but drier Bodie has a mean maximum snow depth of only 32 inches or 0.81 metres three-fifths that of Tahoe City.
The heaviest daily snow flurry in Tahoe City was 42.0 inches (1.07 m) on January 15, 1952 and again on April 3, 1958, and the most in a season 341.4 inches or 8.67 metres between July 1937 and June 1938.
The most snow on the ground has been 166 inches or 4.22 metres on March 20, 1952, and snow usually melts except in abnormally wet years amid April; however there remained as much as 21 inches or 0.53 metres on the ground on average amid May 1967 after a wet winter.
During summer, Tahoe City is generally dry; though unlike cismontane California rare thunderstorms may bring precipitation to the region.
As is typical for the region, summer days are very warm and sunny, but evenings can be chilly and temperatures below 32 F or 0 C have occasionally been reported even in July and August: on July 1 1975 the temperature fell as low as 22 F ( 5.6 C).
The hottest temperature reported in Tahoe City is 94 F (34.4 C) on August 15, 1933 and the coldest 16 F ( 26.7 C) on December 11 of 1972; although on average only 1.4 evenings per winter will fall to or under 0 F or 17.8 C, 204.3 evenings on average fall to or below freezing and only five evenings stay above 50 F or 10 C, with no occurrence of so high a minimum known between October 9 and May 29 inclusive.
Climate data for Tahoe City, California (1971-2000; extremes since 1909) Record high F ( C) 60 Average high F ( C) 40.5 Daily mean F ( C) 30.3 Average low F ( C) 20.1 Record low F ( C) 15 Average rain inches (mm) 6.01 Average snow flurry inches (cm) 38.4 Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 7.5 7.7 7.1 4.1 1.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 1.0 4.3 6.2 39.3 Sunnyside-Tahoe City, California (CDP) Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tahoe City, California a b c d Durham, David L.
California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State.
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Tahoe City travel guide from Wikivoyage Municipalities and communities of Placer County, California, United States
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