Shafter, CA Weather Forecast
Kern County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Shafter, 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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Shafter, CA at a glance
Shafter is home to about 21,915 people in Kern County, across 39 square miles. It ranks 288th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Wasco, 12 miles away.
- County
- Kern County
- Population
- 21,915 2023 est.
- Land area
- 39 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 566
- Forecast point
- 35.4794°N, 119.2013°W
How well can the network see Shafter?
The nearest Doppler radar is KHNX (Hanford, CA), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 4,800 ft above Shafter. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Shafter can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KBFL (Bakersfield/Meadows Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Shafter
- Wasco, CA12 mi
- Bakersfield, CA13 mi
- McFarland, CA13 mi
- Delano, CA20 mi
- Taft, CA27 mi
- Arvin, CA29 mi
- Porterville, CA41 mi
- Corcoran, CA46 mi
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