Santa Maria, CA Weather Forecast
Santa Barbara County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Santa Maria, 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 Maria, CA at a glance
Santa Maria is home to about 109,987 people in Santa Barbara County, across 23 square miles. It ranks 60th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Guadalupe, 8 miles away.
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Population
- 109,987 2023 est.
- Land area
- 23 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,822
- Forecast point
- 34.9331°N, 120.4436°W
How well can the network see Santa Maria?
The nearest Doppler radar is KVBX (Vandenberg AFB, CA), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 350 ft above Santa Maria. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Santa Maria show up clearly. Santa Maria is closer to its radar than 98% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSMX (Santa Maria/Hancock Fld). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Santa Maria
- Guadalupe, CA8 mi
- Arroyo Grande, CA15 mi
- Grover Beach, CA16 mi
- Lompoc, CA19 mi
- Pismo Beach, CA20 mi
- Buellton, CA26 mi
- San Luis Obispo, CA26 mi
- Solvang, CA29 mi
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