Santa Cruz, CA Weather Forecast
Santa Cruz County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Santa Cruz, 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 Cruz, CA at a glance
Santa Cruz is home to about 61,501 people in Santa Cruz County, across 13 square miles. It ranks 143rd by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Capitola, 4 miles away.
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Population
- 61,501 2023 est.
- Land area
- 13 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,827
- Forecast point
- 36.9744°N, 122.0353°W
How well can the network see Santa Cruz?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMUX (San Francisco, CA), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 780 ft above Santa Cruz. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Santa Cruz show up clearly. Santa Cruz is closer to its radar than 91% 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 Santa Cruz
- Capitola, CA4 mi
- Scotts Valley, CA6 mi
- Watsonville, CA15 mi
- Los Gatos, CA18 mi
- Monte Sereno, CA19 mi
- Saratoga, CA20 mi
- Campbell, CA22 mi
- Cupertino, CA24 mi
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