Sep 21-23 Monterey Jazz Festival . Oct 6 Butterfly Parade , Pacific Grove. Great Wine Escape Weekend , Monterey. Dec 7 and 9 Christmas in the Adobes , Monterey. Mild and sunny 12 months a year - there is no 'off season'.
Most people wear comfortable sports clothing all year round.
The Monterey Peninsula has been called the 'jewel of the Central Coast'. For more than 300 years, it has impressed all who have landed on its shores, from the early Spanish explorers and missionaries to present-day visitors. The beauty and charm of the Peninsula captured the hearts and imagination of artists and writers such as John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Robert Louis Stevenson and Ansel Adams. Each in his own way sought to preserve the magic on canvas, paper or film. The Monterey Peninsula's dramatic coastline and sunny valleys are the backdrop for the rich cultural and maritime heritage, which is preserved today in the Mexican adobes , the Maritime Museum, Cannery Row and Fisherman's Wharf in historic Monterey.