title: Emigrant Gap, California
text: # Emigrant Gap, California
  
  Emigrant Gap (formerly, Wilsons Ranch) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. The Emigrant Gap community is located 0.25 miles (0.4 km) southwest of the Emigrant Gap landmark. It lies at an elevation of 5190 feet (1582 m).
  
  The Wilsons Ranch post office opened in 1865, changed its name to Emigrant Gap in 1868. The name Wilsons Ranch honored a stage stop operator.
  
  ## Climate
  
  Eimgrant Gap has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb) according to the Köppen climate classification system. Summers are warm and occasionally hot with cool nights, while winters are cold and snowy. The Western Regional Climate Center had a weather station at an elevation of 5014 feet right next to Emigrant Gap at Lake Spaulding.
  
  Climate data for Emigrant Gap, California (Lake Spaulding), 1981-2010 temperature and precipitation normals, snowfall and extremes 1902–2003 :
  
  | Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Record high °F (°C) | 72 (22) | 75 (24) | 87 (31) | 96 (36) | 97 (36) | 100 (38) | 104 (40) | 103 (39) | 106 (41) | 95 (35) | 86 (30) | 72 (22) | 106 (41) |
  | Mean maximum °F (°C) | 55 (13) | 57 (14) | 69 (21) | 83 (28) | 88 (31) | 92 (33) | 95 (35) | 93 (34) | 90 (32) | 81 (27) | 70 (21) | 58 (14) | 95 (35) |
  | Average high °F (°C) | 44.1 (6.7) | 44.6 (7.0) | 46.5 (8.1) | 53.2 (11.8) | 61.3 (16.3) | 72.7 (22.6) | 81.6 (27.6) | 81.5 (27.5) | 75.4 (24.1) | 63.9 (17.7) | 49.2 (9.6) | 44.0 (6.7) | 59.8 (15.5) |
  | Daily mean °F (°C) | 35.0 (1.7) | 36.7 (2.6) | 38.9 (3.8) | 43.7 (6.5) | 51.2 (10.7) | 58.8 (14.9) | 65.0 (18.3) | 63.9 (17.7) | 59.7 (15.4) | 51.6 (10.9) | 42.2 (5.7) | 37.8 (3.2) | 48.6 (9.2) |
  | Average low °F (°C) | 27.3 (−2.6) | 27.1 (−2.7) | 29.2 (−1.6) | 35.3 (1.8) | 42.1 (5.6) | 49.3 (9.6) | 57.3 (14.1) | 56.9 (13.8) | 49.2 (9.6) | 41.3 (5.2) | 33.1 (0.6) | 26.6 (−3.0) | 39.6 (4.2) |
  | Mean minimum °F (°C) | 12 (−11) | 13 (−11) | 14 (−10) | 25 (−4) | 31 (−1) | 32 (0) | 48 (9) | 47 (8) | 38 (3) | 29 (−2) | 20 (−7) | 11 (−12) | 9 (−13) |
  | Record low °F (°C) | −3 (−19) | −2 (−19) | 0 (−18) | 12 (−11) | 16 (−9) | 24 (−4) | 33 (1) | 32 (0) | 24 (−4) | 14 (−10) | 10 (−12) | −4 (−20) | −4 (−20) |
  | Average precipitation inches (mm) | 12.77 (324) | 11.78 (299) | 11.30 (287) | 6.41 (163) | 3.90 (99) | 1.29 (33) | 0.17 (4.3) | 0.20 (5.1) | 1.63 (41) | 3.77 (96) | 10.77 (274) | 13.56 (344) | 77.55 (1,969.4) |
  | Average snowfall inches (cm) | 53.8 (137) | 49.0 (124) | 49.1 (125) | 23.5 (60) | 6.4 (16) | 0.5 (1.3) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.1 (0.25) | 2.5 (6.4) | 17.9 (45) | 40.5 (103) | 243.3 (617.95) |
  | Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 86 |
  | Source: WRCC (temperature and precipitation averages 1981–2010, other values 1902-2003) "Lake Spaulding, CA (044713./)". Western Regional Climate Center. Retrieved November 29, 2015. </ref> ||||||||||||||
  