El Mirage, Arizona Weather
El Mirage, Arizona — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery for El Mirage, Maricopa County.
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About El Mirage, Arizona
El Mirage unfolds under a vast, unforgiving sky, a landscape carved by the patient hand of the desert. It lies 1.3 miles south-south-east of Surprise, AZ (from Surprise, AZ: bearing 158°T), and is situated 9.5 miles west-north-west of Glendale. The earth here is a study in muted ochres and sun-bleached umbers, a stark beauty that seeps into the very air, thin and dry with the promise of distant mountains. Scrub brush, tenacious and spiny, dots the terrain, clinging to the sandy soil that stretches towards horizons that shimmer with an almost tangible heat. The sunlight, when it descends, casts long, dramatic shadows, turning the mundane into something elemental, a quiet testament to the enduring power of the arid environment. The story of El Mirage is one of resilience and adaptation, a history whispered in the wind that sweeps across its open spaces. Once a place defined by agriculture, its fertile pockets nurtured crops that defied the arid climate, a testament to the ingenuity of those who first settled these lands. Today, while echoes of that agrarian past remain, El Mirage has evolved, its economy now a blend of light industrial endeavors and the steady pulse of a growing residential community. The legacy of its founding, a determined pursuit of life in a challenging environment, can still be felt in the straightforward character of its people, who navigate the vastness with a quiet pragmatism.
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| Location | El Mirage, Maricopa County, Arizona |
| Coordinates | 33.613094°N, 112.324604°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 85335 |
| Area Code | 480 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This El Mirage, Arizona Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for El Mirage, Arizona, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for El Mirage includes coordinates 33.613094°N, 112.324604°W, situated in Maricopa County. ZIP code 85335. Telephone area code: 480. Timezone: Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
