Palo Alto
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About
Palo Alto is a charter city in northwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Palo Alto, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Palo Alto
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Clear
26° / 10°
UV Very high
Sat
Partly cloudy
21° / 10°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
23° / 10°
UV Very high
Mon
Overcast
28° / 16°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
31° / 15°
UV Very high
Wed
Clear
32° / 16°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
38° / 4°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.2h
06:00 – 20:09local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Palo Alto
7 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is San Carlos Airport (SQL) at 15 km.
Getting around Palo Alto
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Dumbarton ExpressAC TransitBARTCaltrainsamTransStanford Marguerite ShuttleCommute.org ShuttlesMVgoVTAMountain View Community ShuttleB Metro
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Christa Kaufmann (flag)Illegitimate Barrister (SVG).
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.