Lake Elsinore, CA Weather Forecast
Riverside County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lake Elsinore, with free alerts the moment it counts.
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.
Seven-day outlook
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Lake Elsinore, CA at a glance
Lake Elsinore is home to about 73,028 people in Riverside County, across 38 square miles. It ranks 120th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Canyon Lake, 4 miles away.
- County
- Riverside County
- Population
- 73,028 2023 est.
- Land area
- 38 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,908
- Forecast point
- 33.6860°N, 117.3354°W
How well can the network see Lake Elsinore?
The nearest Doppler radar is KSOX (Santa Ana Mountains, CA), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,100 ft above Lake Elsinore. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Lake Elsinore show up clearly. Lake Elsinore is closer to its radar than 85% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KF70 (Murrieta/French Valley Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Lake Elsinore
- Canyon Lake, CA4 mi
- Wildomar, CA6 mi
- Menifee, CA9 mi
- Perris, CA10 mi
- Murrieta, CA11 mi
- Rancho Santa Margarita, CA16 mi
- Riverside, CA18 mi
- Temecula, CA18 mi
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