Muir Beach, California Weather
Muir Beach, 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 Muir Beach, Marin County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Muir Beach. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Muir Beach is published on the San Francisco International Airport (KSFO) page, 32 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 Muir Beach 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 Muir Beach: Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (KOAK) 35 km · Half Moon Bay Airport (KHAF) 39 km · Hayward Executive Airport (KHWD) 46 km · Buchanan Field (KCCR) 48 km · San Carlos Airport (KSQL) 48 km
Conditions reported at KSFO describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Muir Beach specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Muir Beach.
About Muir Beach, California
Muir Beach unfolds as a wild, intimate embrace where the Pacific, a ceaseless whisper, meets the rugged Marin Headlands. It lies 8.2 miles south-south-west of San Rafael, CA (from San Rafael, CA: bearing 200°T), and is situated 3.6 miles south-south-west of Mill Valley. Here, the land exhales a cool, damp breath, thick with the scent of salt and eucalyptus, a fragrance that clings to the air long after the fog has surrendered to the sun's hesitant climb. The beach itself, a crescent of sand smoothed by the ocean's tireless hands, is cradled by steep, verdant slopes that tumble down to meet the churning surf, their slopes often veiled in a luminous mist that softens every edge and imbues the scene with a quiet, elemental grandeur. Above, the wind, a restless spirit, combs through the coastal scrub and the resilient cypress, their branches sculpted into poignant gestures by its constant passage. The history of Muir Beach is one of quiet resilience, a place shaped more by the ebb and flow of nature than by grand human design. For generations, its economy was tethered to the sea, its shores occasionally visited by fishermen seeking their bounty, their small boats bobbing like forgotten toys in the vast expanse of the bay. Later, the land began to yield to the quiet cultivation of small farms, their legacy now mostly a memory etched into the gentle contours of the hills. More recently, Muir Beach has become a beloved sanctuary, a place where visitors come to wander the trails that snake into the surrounding Golden Gate National Recreation Area, drawn by the profound peace that settles here, a peace that seems to emanate from the very stones and the ceaseless rhythm of the waves.
Live animated radar for Muir Beach 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 | Muir Beach, Marin County, California |
| Coordinates | 37.862222°N, 122.581389°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 94965 |
| Area Code | 510 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Muir Beach, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Muir Beach, 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 Muir Beach includes coordinates 37.862222°N, 122.581389°W, situated in Marin County. ZIP code 94965. Telephone area code: 510. 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.
