Caliente, California Weather
Caliente, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Caliente, Kern County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 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, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
