Ludlow, California Weather
Ludlow, 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 Ludlow, San Bernardino County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Ludlow. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Ludlow is published on the Twentynine Palms Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field (KNXP) page, 47 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. 2 airfields within reach of Ludlow 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 Ludlow: Barstow Daggett Airport (KDAG) 59 km
Conditions reported at KNXP describe the airfield itself. Weather 47 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ludlow specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ludlow.
About Ludlow, California
Ludlow exists as a quiet punctuation mark in the vast Mojave. It lies 40.9 miles north of Twentynine Palms, CA (from Twentynine Palms, CA: bearing 352°T), and is situated 27.8 miles south-east of Midway. The sun, a relentless eye in the bleached-blue sky, bakes the sparse scrub and hardy creosote bushes that cling to the ochre earth. Low, rounded hills, their ancient contours softened by eons of wind and grit, form a hazy horizon, their crests sometimes softened by a mirage that shimmers and dances like a phantom lake. The air itself feels dry and thin, carrying the faint, mineral tang of the desert, and when the wind stirs, it whispers secrets of dust devils and distant, unseen canyons. In the late afternoon, the landscape takes on a bruised, violet hue, the shadows lengthening like ink spills across the sun-bleached terrain, and the silence here is not an absence of sound, but a presence, vast and profound. This stark expanse has long been a crossroads, a place where the journey itself becomes the character, and Ludlow's story is etched in the dust of transit. Once a vital stop on the Santa Fe Railway, its economy was intrinsically tied to the iron horse, a place of refueling and respite for travelers and freight alike. The echoes of steam and the clang of hammers still seem to linger in the dry air, a ghostly testament to a busier past. Today, the highway is the dominant artery, and while the railway's roar has faded, Ludlow continues to serve as a point of passage, a small cluster of services catering to those traversing the immense desert, a place where the enduring spirit of the West, though quiet, remains palpable.
Live animated radar for Ludlow 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 | Ludlow, San Bernardino County, California |
| Coordinates | 34.7211°N, 116.160012°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 92338 |
| Area Code | 909 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ludlow, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ludlow, 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 Ludlow includes coordinates 34.721100°N, 116.160012°W, situated in San Bernardino County. ZIP code 92338. Telephone area code: 909. 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.
