{"id":81640,"date":"2025-08-14T07:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:36:24","slug":"5-california-cities-with-great-weather-where-you-can-retire-on-2500-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81640\/","title":{"rendered":"5 California Cities With Great Weather Where You Can Retire on $2,500 a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a monthly budget of $2,500 fund a comfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobankingrates.com\/retirement\/planning\/planning-for-retirement\/\" data-is-dynamic-hyperlink=\"false\" data-link-type=\"first-link\" data-link-position=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retirement<\/a> anywhere in California? The answer is yes, according to data from an in-house GOBankingRates study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After referencing several media platforms, including the Farmer\u2019s Almanac, to source U.S. cities with the best weather, we calculated the total cost of living for homeowners (using the average mortgage and average expenditure costs) and renters (the average rent cost plus average expenditure costs) and pulled five California cities from this list where retirement costs with Social Security benefits ($2,005 per month) are $2,500 or less monthly for homeowners and renters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Would you spend your retirement in any of these five Northern and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobankingrates.com\/retirement\/planning\/affordable-places-to-retire-that-feel-like-vacation-spot\/\" data-is-dynamic-hyperlink=\"false\" data-link-type=\"money-link\" data-link-position=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California cities<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can a monthly budget of $2,500 fund a comfortable retirement anywhere in California? The answer is yes, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,17299,147,530,14811,1666],"class_list":["post-81640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-gobankingrates","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-planning","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}