Caliente, California Weather
Caliente, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Caliente, Kern County.
Full aviation weather for Caliente is published on the Tehachapi Municipal Airport (KTSP) page, 24 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. 6 airfields within reach of Caliente 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 Caliente: Mountain Valley Airport (KL94) 28 km · Meadows Field (KBFL) 42 km · Mojave Air & Space Port (KMHV) 51 km · Kern Valley Airport (KL05) 52 km · Shafter Airport - Minter Field (KMIT) 56 km
Conditions reported at KTSP describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Caliente specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Caliente.
About Caliente, California
Caliente unfurls itself beneath a sky that bleeds from ochre to rose as the sun dips below the stark, sculpted ridges. It lies 18.1 miles east-south-east of East Niles, CA (from East Niles, CA: bearing 109°T), and is situated 9.1 miles north of Bear Valley Springs. The air here, even in the fading light, carries a dry, mineral tang, a whisper of the ancient earth that forms the bones of this land. Low-slung buildings, bleached by relentless sun and wind, seem to sink into the dusty alluvial fans that fan out from the surrounding mountains. Scrub oak and tenacious chaparral cling to the slopes, their muted greens offering a subtle contrast to the pale, sun-baked earth. The quiet here is profound, broken only by the distant sigh of wind through the canyons or the occasional rumble of a truck on the highway that bisects this landscape, a thin grey artery connecting it to the wider world. This stretch of land, once traversed by those seeking fortune and passage, carries the echoes of a frontier spirit. Caliente’s history is intertwined with the veins of the earth, its early days marked by the promise of mineral wealth and the determined labor it demanded. Though the boom times have long since receded, a resilient tenacity remains, a quiet pride in the enduring nature of the place. The local economy, a lean and hardy thing, still leans on the land, with agriculture finding a foothold where water allows, coaxing life from the arid soil. The rhythm of life in Caliente is one of patience, of understanding the slow, deliberate pulse of a region that has seen empires rise and fall, and where the enduring strength lies not in frantic growth, but in quiet persistence.
Live animated radar for Caliente 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 | Caliente, Kern County, California |
| Coordinates | 35.291071°N, 118.627869°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 93518 |
| Area Code | 760 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Caliente, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Caliente, 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 Caliente includes coordinates 35.291071°N, 118.627869°W, situated in Kern County. ZIP code 93518. Telephone area code: 760. 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.
