Winter highs are around 70 but nighttimes it can get down below 40 degrees. The dry desert heat during the summer means temperatures over 100, which cools to the 70’s at night. The city has a warm, dry climate with less than 6 inches of rain a year. They are the largest land owners in Palm Springs with over 6,700 acres of reservation land within the city limits. The Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians has lived in the area since their reservation was established in 1896. The San Andreas Fault crosses the valley which is sometime called “The Desert Empire”. The valley covers an area southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains to the saltwater Salton Sea, the largest lake in California.
It had been five years since I last visited Palm Springs (43,000 people) and boy how it has changed! Located about 110 miles east of Los Angeles and 140 miles northeast of San Diego, it is one of nine adjacent cities that make up the Coachella Valley (Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage, and Palm Desert etc).
