Bear Valley, California Weather
Bear Valley, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bear Valley, Alpine County.
Full aviation weather for Bear Valley is published on the Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL) page, 48 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 KTVL describe the airfield itself. Weather 48 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bear Valley specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bear Valley.
About Bear Valley, California
Bear Valley lies in a high mountain basin, a place where granite shoulders rise to embrace the sky and the air itself seems to carry a crystalline clarity. It lies 50.5 miles south-south-west of Carson City, NV (from Carson City, NV: bearing 197°T), and is situated 21.3 miles north-east of White Pines. The landscape is a grand, sweeping amphitheater of alpine meadows and dense stands of pine and fir, their dark green a rich counterpoint to the grey rock that cleaves the horizon. In summer, wildflowers paint the open spaces in fleeting hues of purple, yellow, and crimson, a vibrant, brief flourish against the enduring stone. Winter transforms this same expanse into a hushed, white kingdom, the wind singing through the skeletal branches of deciduous trees and the snow muffling all but the most insistent sounds. The light here, especially in the late afternoon, possesses a peculiar, almost liquid quality, softening the harsh angles of the mountains and casting long, dramatic shadows that stretch across the valley floor. The history of Bear Valley is deeply entwined with the ruggedness of its terrain, a place that has drawn prospectors and hardy souls seeking fortune and solitude. Though whispers of gold and silver once echoed through these canyons, the enduring economy of Bear Valley has always leaned towards the bounty of its natural surroundings. Timber has been a constant, its scent a familiar perfume on the breeze, and in more recent times, the allure of the mountains has drawn a steady stream of visitors seeking recreation. The absence of a large, centralized town lends Bear Valley a character of scattered homesteads and scattered memories, each dwelling a small testament to perseverance. The very air seems to hold the echoes of seasons past, of snow-laden winters and the brief, incandescent bloom of alpine summers, a cyclical rhythm that defines the life of Bear Valley.
Live animated radar for Bear Valley 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 | Bear Valley, Alpine County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.464634°N, 120.039909°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95223, 95338 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bear Valley, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bear Valley, 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 Bear Valley includes coordinates 38.464634°N, 120.039909°W, situated in Alpine County. ZIP code 95223, 95338. Telephone area code: 408, 669. 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.
