Drytown, California Weather
Drytown, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Drytown, Amador County.
Full aviation weather for Drytown is published on the Westover Field Amador County Airport (KJAQ) page, 9 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 Drytown 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 Drytown: Rancho Murieta Airport (KRIU) 22 km · Placerville Airport (KPVF) 33 km · Calaveras Co Maury Rasmussen Field (KCPU) 37 km · Sacramento Mather Airport (KMHR) 41 km · Lodi Airport (K1O3) 45 km
Conditions reported at KJAQ describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Drytown specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Drytown.
About Drytown, California
Drytown, a name that whispers of parched earth and sun-baked resilience, sits in a fold of the Sierra Nevada foothills where oak woodlands give way to rugged chaparral. It lies 20.9 miles south-east of El Dorado Hills, CA (from El Dorado Hills, CA: bearing 144°T), and is situated 7.4 miles north-east of Ione. The landscape here is a study in muted ochres and dusty greens, the hills rolling with a dry, ancient grace under a sky that often stretches, vast and impossibly blue. Twisted manzanita branches, their bark a polished, ruddy hue, claw at the air, and weathered granite outcrops punctuate the slopes, catching the afternoon light like scattered embers. The air itself carries a faint, dry scent of sage and heated pine, a perfume that seems to permeate everything, from the very stones to the weathered wood of the few buildings that comprise Drytown. Even the silence here feels substantial, a deep quietude broken only by the distant cry of a hawk or the rustle of a lizard across the sun-warmed ground. This is a place etched deeply by the California Gold Rush, its very foundations laid in the fevered pursuit of glittering riches. Though the mines have long since fallen silent, the spirit of those hardy prospectors still seems to cling to the dusty lanes and ramshackle structures of Drytown. The local economy, once driven by the veins of gold, now relies on a quieter rhythm, a slow unfurling of small businesses catering to the few who call this isolated corner home, and the occasional curious visitor drawn by the town's historic allure. Old general stores, their paint peeling like sunburnt skin, stand as silent witnesses to a bygone era, while the faint echo of pickaxes striking rock seems to linger in the dry breeze, a ghostly testament to the boom and bust that defined this land.
Live animated radar for Drytown 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 | Drytown, Amador County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.441021°N, 120.854382°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95699 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Drytown, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Drytown, 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 Drytown includes coordinates 38.441021°N, 120.854382°W, situated in Amador County. ZIP code 95699. 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.
