Calipatria, California Weather
Calipatria, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Calipatria, Imperial County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Calipatria. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Calipatria is published on the Cliff Hatfield Memorial Airport (KCLR) page, 1 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 Calipatria 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 Calipatria: Brawley Municipal Airport (KBWC) 15 km · Imperial County Airport (KIPL) 33 km · El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field) (KNJK) 36 km · Salton Sea Airport (KSAS) 43 km · Calexico International Airport (KCXL) 51 km
Conditions reported at KCLR describe the airfield itself. Weather 1 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Calipatria specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Calipatria, California
Calipatria rests in a vast expanse of sun-baked earth, a place where the horizon seems to stretch forever, meeting a sky that often burns a fierce, unwavering blue. It lies 10.2 miles north of Brawley, CA (from Brawley, CA: bearing 5°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north-east of Westmorland. The land here is flat, a canvas etched with the straight, purposeful lines of irrigation canals and agricultural fields, a stark contrast to the distant, hazy outlines of mountains that rim the valley. Dust devils pirouette like ephemeral dancers across the sun-scorched plains, and the air, especially at midday, hums with a dry, latent heat that presses down with tangible weight. Even the sparse vegetation, hardy creosote and mesquite, seems to hold its breath, conserving moisture in this arid cradle, where the light can be so intense it bleaches the very color from the landscape. This is a place born of water's improbable journey to a land that craves it, a testament to human ingenuity in wrestling sustenance from the desert. Calipatria, like much of the Imperial Valley, owes its existence to the Colorado River, its waters painstakingly channeled here to transform arid scrub into fertile farmland. For generations, the economy of Calipatria has been inextricably tied to the bounty of the soil, fields yielding crops that feed distant cities, a quiet, persistent hum of agricultural machinery often the dominant sound. The history of this region is a story of reclamation, of pioneers who saw potential in what others dismissed as wasteland, and that spirit of enduring effort is still palpable, a subtle undercurrent beneath the everyday commerce.
Live animated radar for Calipatria 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 | Calipatria, Imperial County, California |
| Coordinates | 33.125596°N, 115.514154°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 92233 |
| Area Code | 714 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Calipatria, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Calipatria, 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 Calipatria includes coordinates 33.125596°N, 115.514154°W, situated in Imperial County. ZIP code 92233. Telephone area code: 714. 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.
