Dillon Beach, California Weather
Dillon Beach, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Dillon Beach, Marin County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Dillon Beach. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Dillon Beach is published on the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport (KSTS) page, 32 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. 4 airfields within reach of Dillon Beach 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 Dillon Beach: Marin County Airport - Gnoss Field (KDVO) 38 km · Healdsburg Municipal Airport (KHES) 45 km · Napa County Airport (KAPC) 60 km
Conditions reported at KSTS describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Dillon Beach specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Dillon Beach.
About Dillon Beach, California
Dillon Beach greets the Pacific with a wide, welcoming curve of sand, where the raw power of the ocean meets the rugged contours of the Marin Headlands. It lies 15.6 miles west-south-west of Rohnert Park, CA (from Rohnert Park, CA: bearing 247°T), and is situated 7.3 miles south-east of Bodega Bay. The air here carries a constant, salty tang, a brisk perfume of kelp and distant fog, and the relentless whisper of the surf is a perpetual soundtrack. Waves, often formidable, crash and recede with a measured, ancient rhythm, leaving behind a glistening sheen on the wet sand that mirrors the vast, often overcast sky above. Low-lying bluffs, carpeted with hardy coastal scrub and the occasional stoic cypress, guard the edges of this expansive shoreline, their forms sculpted by the persistent wind. The light, when it breaks through, possesses a cool, ethereal quality, bathing the scene in a soft, pearlescent glow that softens the sharp edges of rock and dune. This stretch of coast, though wild and seemingly untamed, has long been a place of human endeavor, its history tied to the sea and the land's yielding bounty. For generations, it has drawn fishermen who understand the moods of the Pacific and the secrets of its depths, their small boats a familiar sight bobbing just beyond the breakers. The local economy, still tethered to the ocean's generosity, also finds its pulse in the seasonal influx of visitors drawn by the beach's stark beauty and the promise of a bracing escape. Small, weathered structures, some dating back to earlier days, hint at a past where life was perhaps a little closer to the bone, a testament to resilience against the elements. Dillon Beach, with its grand sweep of sand and the ever-present immensity of the ocean, remains a place where the wild spirit of the coast is palpable, a quiet defiance against the encroaching world.
Live animated radar for Dillon Beach 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 | Dillon Beach, Marin County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.250752°N, 122.965277°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 94929 |
| Area Code | 510 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dillon Beach, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dillon Beach, 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 Dillon Beach includes coordinates 38.250752°N, 122.965277°W, situated in Marin County. ZIP code 94929. Telephone area code: 510. 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.
