Baker, California Weather
Baker, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Baker, San Bernardino County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Baker. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Baker is published on the Bicycle Lake Army Air Field (KBYS) page, 50 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 KBYS describe the airfield itself. Weather 50 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Baker specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Baker.
About Baker, California
Baker, California, is a place defined by the stark, unyielding beauty of the Mojave Desert, a vast expanse where the horizon seems to stretch into infinity under a sky of impossibly deep blue. It lies 59.3 miles east-north-east of Barstow, CA (from Barstow, CA: bearing 64°T), and is situated 27.6 miles north-east of Midway. Here, the land is a canvas of ochre and pale sand, punctuated by hardy creosote bushes and the occasional tenacious Joshua tree, their spiky branches reaching like supplicating arms towards the sun. The air, especially in the fierce embrace of summer, hums with a dry heat that seems to bake the very essence of the earth, giving the distant mountains a hazy, ethereal outline. Even the shadows, cast long and sharp by the relentless sun, seem to possess a tangible, almost sculptural quality in this arid realm. The history of Baker is as dry and resilient as the desert itself, a testament to human endeavor in an unforgiving landscape. For decades, its existence has been largely tied to the passage of travelers, a crucial waypoint on the long road connecting Southern California to Nevada and beyond. The local economy, once reliant on the transient flow of motorists seeking fuel and respite, now also finds a footing in the extraction of mineral resources, the earth yielding its hidden treasures under the watchful gaze of the sun. Baker’s most famous landmark, the World's Tallest Thermometer, stands as a quirky, enduring monument to this spirit of roadside Americana, a gleaming, if somewhat faded, beacon in the vast, silent desert.
Live animated radar for Baker 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 | Baker, San Bernardino County, California |
| Coordinates | 35.264981°N, 116.074457°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 93516, 92309 |
| Area Code | 760, 909 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Baker, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Baker, California, 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 Baker includes coordinates 35.264981°N, 116.074457°W, situated in San Bernardino County. ZIP code 93516, 92309. Telephone area code: 760, 909. Timezone: Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles).
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.
