Santa Barbara, CA Weather Forecast
Santa Barbara County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Santa Barbara, 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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Santa Barbara, CA at a glance
Santa Barbara is home to about 86,499 people in Santa Barbara County, across 19 square miles. It ranks 92nd by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Goleta, 9 miles away.
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Population
- 86,499 2023 est.
- Land area
- 19 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,438
- Forecast point
- 34.4036°N, 119.7137°W
How well can the network see Santa Barbara?
The nearest Doppler radar is KVTX (Los Angeles, CA), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 1,900 ft above Santa Barbara. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Santa Barbara show up clearly. Santa Barbara is closer to its radar than 70% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSBA (Santa Barbara Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Santa Barbara
- Goleta, CA9 mi
- Carpinteria, CA12 mi
- Ojai, CA27 mi
- Solvang, CA28 mi
- Ventura, CA28 mi
- Buellton, CA31 mi
- Oxnard, CA32 mi
- Port Hueneme, CA34 mi
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