| Tahoe City | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | California |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in California |
| Unit Pref: | US |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Placer County |
| Coordinates: | 39.1722°N -120.1389°W |
| Elevation M: | 1905 |
| Elevation Ft: | 6250 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Climate |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Dsb |
Tahoe City (formerly Tahoe) is an unincorporated town in Placer County, California. Tahoe City is located on the shore of Lake Tahoe, at the outlet of the Truckee River.
The site was surveyed in 1863, and Tahoe House was built in 1864. The Tahoe post office opened in 1871, closed for a period in 1896, and changed its name to Tahoe City in 1949. The ZIP Code is 96145. For statistical purposes, Tahoe City is included in the Sunnyside-Tahoe City census-designated place (CDP).
Due to its high elevation, Tahoe City has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dsb) with dry summers featuring very warm days and cool nights, plus chilly winters with regular snowfall. The annual snowfall of 170.82NaN2 (median snowfall is 145.82NaN2) is remarkable for a place with only twelve days typically not topping freezing: it is indeed so heavy that the mean maximum snow depth is as high as 522NaN2 despite much melting and refreezing due to persistent freeze/thaw cycles. As a comparison, higher, colder, but drier Bodie has a mean maximum snow depth of only 322NaN2 – three-fifths that of Tahoe City. The heaviest daily snowfall in Tahoe City was 42inches on January 15, 1952, and again on April 3, 1958, and the most in a season 341.42NaN2 between July 1937 and June 1938. The most snow on the ground has been 1662NaN2 on March 20, 1952, and snow usually melts except in abnormally wet years during April; however there remained as much as 212NaN2 on the ground on average during May 1967 after a wet winter.
During summer, Tahoe City is generally dry; though thunderstorms may bring rain to the region. As is typical for the region, summer days are very warm and sunny, but nights can be chilly and temperatures below 32F have occasionally been reported even in July and August: on July 1, 1975, the temperature fell as low as 22F. The hottest temperature reported in Tahoe City is 94F on August 15, 1933, and the coldest NaNF on December 11 of 1972; although on average only 1.4 nights per winter will fall to or under 01NaN1, 204.3 nights on average fall to or below freezing and only five nights stay above 50F, with no occurrence of so high a minimum known between October 9 and May 29 inclusive.
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