Calipatria, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Calipatria, Imperial County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
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, 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 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. 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.