Cold Springs, California Weather
Cold Springs, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cold Springs, El Dorado County.
Full aviation weather for Cold Springs is published on the Placerville Airport (KPVF) page, 10 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 Cold Springs 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 Cold Springs: Auburn Municipal Airport (KAUN) 30 km · Rancho Murieta Airport (KRIU) 35 km · Westover Field Amador County Airport (KJAQ) 41 km · Sacramento Mather Airport (KMHR) 43 km · Lincoln Regional Karl Harder Field (KLHM) 46 km
Conditions reported at KPVF describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cold Springs specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cold Springs.
About Cold Springs, California
Cold Springs unfolds in a landscape of rolling hills, where the dry grasses of summer turn a pale gold and the distant peaks of the Sierra Nevada often wear a dusting of snow. It lies 12.1 miles east-north-east of El Dorado Hills, CA (from El Dorado Hills, CA: bearing 71°T), and is situated 8.1 miles north-east of Cameron Park. The air here carries the scent of pine needles warmed by the sun, a fragrance that mingles with the fainter, earthier aroma of the surrounding chaparral. Oak trees, gnarled and enduring, dot the hillsides, their branches reaching out like patient arms, providing dappled shade that shifts and dances with the breeze. The sky above Cold Springs is a vast, ever-changing canvas, particularly at dusk, when shades of rose and lavender bleed into a deep, velvety indigo, and the first stars begin to prick through the fading light. The history of Cold Springs is deeply entwined with the quest for gold, a legacy that still whispers in the quiet canyons and along the now-gentle flow of its namesake waterway. Though the feverish rush has long since subsided, the spirit of enterprise remains, manifesting in a local economy that leans towards agriculture and small-scale, independent businesses. You’ll find orchards yielding plump fruit and vineyards producing robust wines, the bounty of the land carefully cultivated. It’s a place where the past feels present, not as a relic, but as a foundation, and the pace of life allows for conversations that linger, for neighbors to know each other’s stories, and for the simple beauty of the natural world to be a daily, quiet companion.
Live animated radar for Cold Springs 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 | Cold Springs, El Dorado County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.741847°N, 120.870215°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95335, 95667 |
| Area Code | 408, 669, 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cold Springs, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cold Springs, 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 Cold Springs includes coordinates 38.741847°N, 120.870215°W, situated in El Dorado County. ZIP code 95335, 95667. Telephone area code: 408, 669, 530. 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.
