LAX against normal, September 2026
September 2026 at LAX ran 4.5°F above normal. Normal here is the 1991-2020 average for that same month, which is the standard climate baseline — so this is a comparison with the recent past, not with the start of the record.
Across the whole series, September has averaged -0.2°F against that baseline, over 79 years. The warmest was +6.5 (1984) and the coldest -4.7 (1953). A single month is weather; the reason to post one every month is that the band they fall in has moved — which is what the 12-month average on the chart is there to show.
The station is the caveat. One weather station stands for the whole metro: Los Angeles International Airport (NOAA USW00023174), whose record starts in 1936. The ground around a thermometer changes over decades, so some of the drift in this line is the site and not the climate. That is why the anomaly is measured against a fixed 1991-2020 baseline rather than against the early record.
Source: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network daily records for Los Angeles International Airport (USW00023174), via RCC-ACIS, aggregated to monthly means and differenced against the 1991-2020 normal for each calendar month. Auto-generated each build.