Downieville, California Weather
Downieville, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Downieville, Sierra County.
Full aviation weather for Downieville is published on the Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (KBLU) page, 33 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. 3 airfields within reach of Downieville 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 Downieville: Nevada County Airport (KGOO) 40 km · Sierraville Dearwater Airport (KO79) 41 km
Conditions reported at KBLU describe the airfield itself. Weather 33 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Downieville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Downieville.
About Downieville, California
Downieville rests in a deep cleft of the Sierra Nevada mountains, where the Yuba River, a restless, glacial-blue serpent, carves its relentless path through granite. It lies 51.2 miles north-east of Yuba City, CA (from Yuba City, CA: bearing 55°T), and is situated 26.6 miles north-north-east of Grass Valley. The air here, even in summer's height, carries a crisp, pine-scented coolness that clings to the shadowed slopes, a constant reminder of the elevation and the vast, wild country that presses in on all sides. Buildings, weathered and stoic, cling to the steep inclines, their wooden facades a muted palette of greys and browns against the vibrant green of the surrounding forest. Above, the sky is a vast, indifferent dome, often a startling, luminous blue that can, with startling speed, darken to the bruised purples of an impending mountain storm. This is a place born of gold, where the echoes of pickaxes and the dreams of prospectors still resonate in the very bedrock of Downieville. The Yuba, once a raging artery of the California Gold Rush, now flows with a gentler persistence, its banks a testament to the ceaseless churn of history and the enduring allure of precious metal. The local economy, though no longer solely dependent on the whims of the mother lode, still bears the imprint of those early days, with a quiet resilience evident in the small businesses that cater to both locals and the steady stream of visitors drawn to the area's rugged beauty. Downieville preserves a character that is both untamed and intimately human, a place where the immensity of nature meets the enduring spirit of those who chose to make their home in its formidable embrace.
Live animated radar for Downieville 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 | Downieville, Sierra County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.55934°N, 120.82689°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95936 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Downieville, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Downieville, 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 Downieville includes coordinates 39.559340°N, 120.826890°W, situated in Sierra County. ZIP code 95936. Telephone area code: 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.
