Watsonville, CA Weather Forecast
Santa Cruz County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Watsonville, 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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Watsonville, CA at a glance
Watsonville is home to about 50,867 people in Santa Cruz County, across 6.8 square miles. It ranks 176th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Capitola, 11 miles away.
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Population
- 50,867 2023 est.
- Land area
- 6.8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 7,496
- Forecast point
- 36.9236°N, 121.7724°W
How well can the network see Watsonville?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMUX (San Francisco, CA), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 960 ft above Watsonville. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Watsonville show up clearly. Watsonville is closer to its radar than 88% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KWVI (Watsonville Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Watsonville
- Capitola, CA11 mi
- Gilroy, CA12 mi
- Santa Cruz, CA15 mi
- Scotts Valley, CA16 mi
- Morgan Hill, CA16 mi
- Marina, CA17 mi
- Salinas, CA18 mi
- Seaside, CA21 mi
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