Is San Diego safe? United States travel risk
Is San Diego safe right now? Checked 9 October 2026
San Diego 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.
San Diego 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 San Diego: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (62/100) and natural hazards (69/100).
A score of 52 is higher than the scores of 69% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Geographic & Regional Coordinates
Found at 32.8313° N, 117.1222° W within California, San Diego is situated 3,646.5 km ENE of Washington at an altitude of 20 m.
California
32.8313° N, 117.1222° W
20 m
America/Los_Angeles
3,057,778
Emergency & Aviation Access
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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 (36 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 | — | 2 | — | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of San Diego happened in January (2 of 6 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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