Big Lagoon, California Weather
Big Lagoon, 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 Big Lagoon, Humboldt County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Big Lagoon. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Big Lagoon is published on the California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport (KACV) page, 20 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. 2 airfields within reach of Big Lagoon have their own pages, listed below.
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.
Other airports near Big Lagoon: Murray Field (KEKA) 40 km
Conditions reported at KACV describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Big Lagoon specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Big Lagoon.
About Big Lagoon, California
Big Lagoon sprawls, a vast, shimmering expanse of calm water that mirrors the bruised purples and bruised oranges of the Humboldt County sky. It lies 24.8 miles north of Eureka, CA (from Eureka, CA: bearing 4°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north of Westhaven-Moonstone. The lagoon itself, a broad, serpentine arm of the Pacific, is sheltered by a formidable barrier of sand dunes and coastal forest, a place where the relentless ocean breath is softened into a sigh. Ancient redwood and Sitka spruce trees, cloaked in moss and draped with lichen, crowd the shoreline, their roots grasping at the dark, rich soil that smells perpetually of damp earth and salt. The air here is thick with the scent of brine and pine, a constant, cool embrace that seeps into your bones, and the silence is profound, broken only by the cries of gulls and the rustle of wind through the immense trees. This is a landscape shaped by the slow, deliberate work of tides and time, a place where the Yurok people have gathered for generations, their stories whispered on the sea breeze. Later, the logging industry, drawn by the towering redwoods, carved its own indelible mark, though today the economy of Big Lagoon is more attuned to the gentle pulse of tourism and the quiet sustenance drawn from its waters. Small fishing boats, their paint weathered by sun and spray, bob near the shore, and the occasional kayak glides across the placid surface, a solitary explorer in a realm of immense natural beauty. The sense of history here is not a loud pronouncement, but a deep, resonant hum, a feeling that the land remembers every footstep and every passing season.
Live animated radar for Big Lagoon 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 | Big Lagoon, Humboldt County, California |
| Coordinates | 41.160401°N, 124.133682°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95570 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Big Lagoon, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Big Lagoon, 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 Big Lagoon includes coordinates 41.160401°N, 124.133682°W, situated in Humboldt County. ZIP code 95570. Telephone area code: 530. 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.
