Sunwest, Arizona Weather
Sunwest, Arizona — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sunwest, La Paz County.
Full aviation weather for Sunwest is published on the Wickenburg Municipal Airport (KE25) page, 66 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Conditions reported at KE25 describe the airfield itself. Weather 66 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sunwest specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sunwest.
About Sunwest, Arizona
Sunwest rests against a canvas of sun-baked earth, a low-slung settlement where the desert’s immense, silent sky presses down. It lies 51.7 miles west-north-west of Buckeye, AZ (from Buckeye, AZ: bearing 293°T), and is situated 14.3 miles south-east of Salome. The landscape here is a testament to resilience, a rugged expanse of scrub and tenacious creosote bushes that cling to the ochre soil. Distant, hazy mountains, their forms softened by the shimmering heat, form a perpetual horizon. The air itself possesses a dry, mineral tang, carrying the faint scent of dust and the distant promise of rain that rarely arrives. Even the silence here feels palpable, broken only by the occasional whisper of wind through dry grasses or the startling cry of a hawk circling overhead. The lifeblood of Sunwest has long been drawn from the earth’s hidden veins, a heritage etched into the very character of the place by decades of mining. Though the major operations have long since quieted, the echoes of that industrious past still resonate in the weathered facades of buildings and the enduring spirit of its inhabitants. Today, a more varied economy sustains Sunwest, with small businesses catering to the lingering agricultural needs of the surrounding ranches and a growing number of visitors drawn by the stark, unadorned beauty of the desert. The rhythm of life is measured, unhurried, dictated more by the sun’s arc across the heavens than by any clock.
Live animated radar for Sunwest and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Sunwest, La Paz County, Arizona |
| Coordinates | 33.660426°N, 113.411686°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 85348 |
| Area Code | 480 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sunwest, Arizona Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sunwest, Arizona, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. 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 Sunwest includes coordinates 33.660426°N, 113.411686°W, situated in La Paz County. ZIP code 85348. 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. 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.
