Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Weather Forecast
Orange County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Rancho Santa Margarita, 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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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA at a glance
Rancho Santa Margarita is home to about 46,182 people in Orange County, across 13 square miles. It ranks 190th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Mission Viejo, 4 miles away.
- County
- Orange County
- Population
- 46,182 2023 est.
- Land area
- 13 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,572
- Forecast point
- 33.6323°N, 117.5990°W
How well can the network see Rancho Santa Margarita?
The nearest Doppler radar is KSOX (Santa Ana Mountains, CA), to the N. Its lowest scan passes about 680 ft above Rancho Santa Margarita. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Rancho Santa Margarita show up clearly. Rancho Santa Margarita is closer to its radar than 93% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSNA (Santa Ana/Wayne Arpt). Far enough that current conditions for Rancho Santa Margarita are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Rancho Santa Margarita
- Mission Viejo, CA4 mi
- Lake Forest, CA5 mi
- Laguna Hills, CA6 mi
- Laguna Woods, CA8 mi
- Aliso Viejo, CA8 mi
- Laguna Niguel, CA9 mi
- San Juan Capistrano, CA10 mi
- Irvine, CA10 mi
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