Sacramento, CA Weather Forecast
Sacramento County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Sacramento, 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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Sacramento, CA at a glance
Sacramento is home to about 526,384 people in Sacramento County, across 99 square miles. It ranks 6th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is West Sacramento, 4 miles away.
- County
- Sacramento County
- Population
- 526,384 2023 est.
- Land area
- 99 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 5,336
- Forecast point
- 38.5677°N, 121.4682°W
How well can the network see Sacramento?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDAX (Sacramento, CA), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 640 ft above Sacramento. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Sacramento show up clearly. Sacramento is closer to its radar than 94% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSAC (Sacramento Exec). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Sacramento
- West Sacramento, CA4 mi
- Elk Grove, CA11 mi
- Rancho Cordova, CA13 mi
- Citrus Heights, CA13 mi
- Davis, CA15 mi
- Roseville, CA16 mi
- Woodland, CA17 mi
- Folsom, CA19 mi
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