Gold Mountain, California Weather
Gold Mountain, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Gold Mountain, Plumas County.
Full aviation weather for Gold Mountain is published on the Sierraville Dearwater Airport (KO79) page, 25 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 Gold Mountain 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 Gold Mountain: Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (KBLU) 56 km · Reno-Stead Airport (KRTS) 57 km · Truckee Tahoe Airport (KTRK) 60 km
Conditions reported at KO79 describe the airfield itself. Weather 25 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Gold Mountain specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Gold Mountain.
About Gold Mountain, California
Gold Mountain rises from Plumas County like a weathered sentinel, its slopes cloaked in the deep greens and somber browns of pine and fir. It lies 41.6 miles west-north-west of Reno, NV (from Reno, NV: bearing 293°T), and is situated 4.8 miles south-west of Portola. The air here, even in the height of summer, carries a crispness that hints at the elevation, a clean, sharp scent of resin and damp earth. Jagged granite outcrops, softened by eons of wind and rain, punctuate the dense forest, their grey surfaces catching the sun in fleeting moments of brilliance. Below, the land falls away into shadowed canyons, where the distant murmur of unseen creeks is the only sound that breaks the profound quietude. The sky overhead is a vast, uninterrupted dome, often a startling sapphire blue, its immensity emphasizing the solitary grandeur of Gold Mountain. This place, Gold Mountain, was once a fevered dream of prospectors, a name whispered with avarice and hope during the frenzied days of the California Gold Rush. Though the veins of wealth have long since thinned, the echoes of that era linger in the weathered timbers of abandoned cabins and the faint scars on the hillsides. The local economy now leans on the enduring bounty of the surrounding forests, with timber mills humming a steady, industrious tune, and the quiet pursuit of tourism, drawn by the untamed beauty and the promise of clear, cold mountain streams. In the small, scattered settlements that cling to the mountain’s flanks, life unfolds at a pace dictated by the changing seasons, a deliberate rhythm that seems to absorb the stoic resilience of the land itself.
Live animated radar for Gold Mountain 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 | Gold Mountain, Plumas County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.762013°N, 120.534878°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96106 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Gold Mountain, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gold Mountain, 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 Gold Mountain includes coordinates 39.762013°N, 120.534878°W, situated in Plumas County. ZIP code 96106. 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.
