Big Oak Flat, California Weather
Big Oak Flat, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Big Oak Flat, Tuolumne County.
Full aviation weather for Big Oak Flat is published on the Mariposa Yosemite Airport (KMPI) page, 40 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. 3 airfields within reach of Big Oak Flat 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 Oak Flat: Turlock Municipal Airport (KO15) 54 km · Castle Airport (KMER) 56 km
Conditions reported at KMPI describe the airfield itself. Weather 40 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Big Oak Flat specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Big Oak Flat.
About Big Oak Flat, California
Big Oak Flat spills across a high Sierra Nevada landscape where granite bones push through the tawny earth, a place etched by the slow, inexorable grind of glaciers and the sharper chisel of human endeavor. It lies 37.5 miles east of Riverbank, CA (from Riverbank, CA: bearing 81°T), and is situated 4.7 miles west-south-west of Pine Mountain Lake. Here, the air, thin and carrying the sharp scent of pine and sun-baked rock, seems to hum with an ancient stillness. The terrain, a rugged embrace of steep slopes and narrow canyons, is cloaked in resilient chaparral and scattered stands of sturdy oak, their gnarled branches reaching like supplicating arms towards a sky that often burns a fierce, unyielding blue. Sunlight, when it breaks through, falls in fractured patterns, illuminating dust devils that dance briefly on the seldom-traveled roads, ephemeral spirits of this wilder edge of the world. The echoes of a gold rush past still resonate in the very stones of Big Oak Flat, a place that once teemed with the fevered rush of prospectors and the clatter of claims. Though the fever has long since cooled, a hardy spirit endures, tied to the land and the enduring allure of the natural world. The local economy, a blend of service to passing travelers and a deep connection to the surrounding wilderness, finds its pulse in the businesses that cater to those venturing into the nearby national parks. The character of Big Oak Flat is one of quiet resilience, a place where the vastness of the mountains dwarfs individual concerns, fostering a sense of shared existence under an immense, starlit canopy.
Live animated radar for Big Oak Flat 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 Oak Flat, Tuolumne County, California |
| Coordinates | 37.823539°N, 120.258246°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95305 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Big Oak Flat, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Big Oak Flat, 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 Oak Flat includes coordinates 37.823539°N, 120.258246°W, situated in Tuolumne County. ZIP code 95305. 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.
