Is Cathedral City safe? United States travel risk
Is Cathedral City safe right now? Checked 17 October 2026
Cathedral City scores 42/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise normal security precautions. The US State Department does not issue advice for United States. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Cathedral City scores 42/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and United States (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Cathedral City: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: natural hazards (60/100) and security (35/100).
A score of 42 is higher than 45% of the cities we score.
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Local Geographic Profile
Found at 33.8362° N, 116.4642° W within California, Cathedral City is situated 3,548.7 km ENE of Washington at an altitude of 100 m.
California
33.8362° N, 116.4642° W
100 m
America/Los_Angeles
52,047
Emergency & Transport Infrastructure
Surrounding Localities in United States
Climate by Month
Hottest: July (42 °C avg high); Wettest: February (27 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 21° | 23° | 26° | 30° | 35° | 40° | 42° | 42° | 38° | 32° | 25° | 20° |
| Low °C | 10° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 19° | 23° | 28° | 28° | 25° | 19° | 14° | 10° |
| Rain mm | 21 | 27 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 22 |
Normals: Indio (24 km away).
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| Wildfires | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of Cathedral City happened in August and November (2 of 2 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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