Tahoe City (formerly Tahoe) is an

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town in

Placer County Placer County ( ; Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 404,739. The county seat is Auburn. Placer County is included in the Great ...

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. Tahoe City is located on the shore of

Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe (; was, Dáʔaw, meaning "the lake") is a Fresh water, freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada of the United States. Lying at , it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City, Nevad ...

, at the outlet of the

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. 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).

Climate

Due to its high elevation, Tahoe City has a

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(

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''Dsb'') with dry summers featuring very warm days and cool nights, plus chilly winters with regular snowfall. The annual snowfall of (''

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'' snowfall is ) 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 despite much melting and refreezing due to persistent freeze/thaw cycles. As a comparison, higher, colder, but drier

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has a mean maximum snow depth of only – three-fifths that of Tahoe City. The heaviest daily snowfall in Tahoe City was on January 15, 1952, and again on April 3, 1958, and the most in a season between July 1937 and June 1938. The most snow on the ground has been on March 20, 1952, and snow usually melts except in abnormally wet years during April; however there remained as much as 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 have occasionally been reported even in July and August: on July 1, 1975, the temperature fell as low as . The hottest temperature reported in Tahoe City is on August 15, 1933, and the coldest on December 11 of 1972; although on average only 1.4 nights per winter will fall to or under , 204.3 nights on average fall to or below freezing and only five nights stay above , with no occurrence of so high a minimum known between October 9 and May 29 inclusive.

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* Unincorporated communities in Placer County, California Lake Tahoe Populated places in the Sierra Nevada (United States) Populated places established in 1863 1863 establishments in California Unincorporated communities in California {{PlacerCountyCA-geo-stub

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