Manton, California Weather
Manton, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Manton, Tehama County.
Full aviation weather for Manton is published on the Redding Municipal Airport (KRDD) page, 37 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 Manton 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 Manton: Red Bluff Municipal Airport (KRBL) 45 km · Rogers Field (KO05) 56 km
Conditions reported at KRDD describe the airfield itself. Weather 37 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Manton specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Manton.
About Manton, California
Manton rests in a cradle of rolling hills, a place where the sky seems to stretch wider than elsewhere. It lies 29.3 miles east-south-east of Redding, CA (from Redding, CA: bearing 111°T), and is situated 4.1 miles south-south-east of Shingletown. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint sweetness, a blend of sun-baked earth and the distant scent of pine from the higher elevations that begin to assert themselves to the north. Gentle slopes, cloaked in a mosaic of dry grasses and scattered oak, descend towards the valley floor, where the land flattens into patchwork fields. The character of Manton is one of quiet resilience, its homes and businesses clinging to the land with a practical grace, their weathered facades speaking of seasons weathered and lives lived in harmony with the natural world. This particular corner of Tehama County has long been shaped by the land’s bounty, its economy historically tied to agriculture and the harvesting of its timber. The fertile soil, once cultivated by early settlers seeking opportunity, still yields its produce, though the whispers of logging rigs are now more often heard in the rustle of leaves than the roar of machinery. There's a sense of continuity here, a feeling that the rhythms of life in Manton are as old as the hills themselves, marked by the changing light and the predictable turning of the seasons. The broad, quiet roads invite a slower pace, a chance to observe the hawks circling overhead or the way the sunlight catches the dust kicked up by a passing pickup truck.
Live animated radar for Manton 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.
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| Location | Manton, Tehama County, California |
| Coordinates | 40.435157°N, 121.86999°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96059 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Manton, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Manton, 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 Manton includes coordinates 40.435157°N, 121.869990°W, situated in Tehama County. ZIP code 96059. 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.
