Capitola, CA Weather Forecast
Santa Cruz County, California
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The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
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Capitola, CA at a glance
Capitola is home to about 9,572 people in Santa Cruz County, across 1.6 square miles. It ranks 377th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Santa Cruz, 4 miles away.
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Population
- 9,572 2023 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 6,005
- Forecast point
- 36.9761°N, 121.9540°W
How well can the network see Capitola?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMUX (San Francisco, CA), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 670 ft above Capitola. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Capitola show up clearly. Capitola is closer to its radar than 93% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KWVI (Watsonville Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Capitola
- Santa Cruz, CA4 mi
- Scotts Valley, CA6 mi
- Watsonville, CA11 mi
- Los Gatos, CA18 mi
- Monte Sereno, CA18 mi
- Morgan Hill, CA20 mi
- Gilroy, CA20 mi
- Saratoga, CA21 mi
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