Is El Cajon safe? United States travel risk
Is El Cajon safe right now? Checked 17 October 2026
El Cajon scores 52/100 on our travel risk index (Elevated). 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.
El Cajon scores 52/100 (Elevated). 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 El Cajon: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (61/100) and natural hazards (68/100).
A score of 52 is higher than 68% of the cities we score.
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Location & Spatial Data
Found at 32.8017° N, 116.9604° W within California, El Cajon is situated 3,633.7 km ENE of Washington at an altitude of 133 m.
California
32.8017° N, 116.9604° W
133 m
America/Los_Angeles
104,909
Transit Links & Medical Facilities
Proximate Regional Communities (United States)
Climate by Month
Hottest: August (25 °C avg high); Wettest: February (60 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 17° | 17° | 17° | 19° | 20° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 17° |
| Low °C | 9° | 9° | 10° | 12° | 14° | 15° | 18° | 19° | 18° | 16° | 12° | 9° |
| Rain mm | 54 | 60 | 56 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 56 |
Normals: Tijuana (32.7 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 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Wildfires | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of El Cajon happened in January (2 of 6 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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