Santa Rosa, CA Weather Forecast
Sonoma County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Santa Rosa, 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 Rosa, CA at a glance
Santa Rosa is home to about 175,845 people in Sonoma County, across 43 square miles. It ranks 27th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Rohnert Park, 7 miles away.
- County
- Sonoma County
- Population
- 175,845 2023 est.
- Land area
- 43 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,134
- Forecast point
- 38.4458°N, 122.7062°W
How well can the network see Santa Rosa?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDAX (Sacramento, CA), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 4,100 ft above Santa Rosa. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Santa Rosa can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KSTS (Santa Rosa/Schulz Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Santa Rosa
- Rohnert Park, CA7 mi
- Sebastopol, CA7 mi
- Cotati, CA8 mi
- Windsor, CA9 mi
- Calistoga, CA12 mi
- St. Helena, CA14 mi
- Petaluma, CA15 mi
- Healdsburg, CA15 mi
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