2026 Compare Cities Climate:
Long Beach, CA vs Pacific Grove, CA

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Highlights
- Pacific Grove has 34.6% more rainy days than Long Beach.
- Pacific Grove has 7.0% less Sunny Days than Long Beach.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Pacific Grove scores 11.8% worse than Long Beach
 Long Beach, CAPacific Grove, CAUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock1838
 Snowfall0  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock69106
 Sunny287  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock6786
 Avg. Jan. Low46  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock8.27
 UV Index6.2  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock1512443
Reviews for Long Beach    45 Reviews

Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 6 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 8 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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Reviews for Pacific Grove    3 Reviews

We had vacationed in the Monterey Bay Area for 40 years and really liked it, so we leased an apartment in Pacific Grove for a year to see if we would like to purchase  More

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Over 20 years ago

PG is a wonderful town, although with a four-year old child, the town feels old. It is prohibitively expensive to live in PG with the Average home close to a million  More

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We were welcomed to the community and had great  More

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