Onyx, California Weather
Onyx, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Onyx, Kern County.
Full aviation weather for Onyx is published on the Kern Valley Airport (KL05) page, 18 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 Onyx 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 Onyx: Inyokern Airport (KIYK) 36 km · China Lake Naws (Armitage Field) Airport (KNID) 48 km
Conditions reported at KL05 describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Onyx specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Onyx.
About Onyx, California
Onyx lies where the land begins to swell and fold, a place where the dry earth cracks under a sun that burns with a fierce, unwavering gaze. It lies 31.2 miles west of Ridgecrest, CA (from Ridgecrest, CA: bearing 279°T), and is situated 4.3 miles east-north-east of Weldon. The landscape here is a study in muted earth tones – ochre, rust, and the pale, sun-bleached beige of scrub and sparse grasses. Canyons, etched by ancient, unseen waters, cleave the land, their shadowed depths a stark contrast to the blinding brilliance of the open sky. The air, when it moves, carries the scent of dust and creosote, a dry perfume that speaks of resilience and a long, slow process of shaping by wind and sun. Occasional hardy Joshua trees, their spiky arms raised in silent supplication, punctuate the scene, their forms as stark and sculptural as the land itself. The history of Onyx is as deeply buried as the minerals that once gave it its name, a whisper of boom and bust carried on the desert winds. For a time, prospectors and miners, drawn by the promise of precious stones and other subterranean riches, carved out a living from this unforgiving terrain. The local economy, now more reliant on the arid embrace of agriculture and the quiet passage of travelers seeking solace or adventure, still carries the echoes of that fervent past. You can feel it in the stoic resilience of the few buildings that remain, their weathered facades bearing witness to a time when the ground beneath Onyx yielded its secrets. The vast, clear nights, unpolluted by city lights, offer a celestial spectacle, a reminder of the immense, silent forces that continue to shape this enduring corner of the world.
Live animated radar for Onyx 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 | Onyx, Kern County, California |
| Coordinates | 35.69023°N, 118.220634°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 93255 |
| Area Code | 661 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Onyx, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Onyx, 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 Onyx includes coordinates 35.690230°N, 118.220634°W, situated in Kern County. ZIP code 93255. Telephone area code: 661. 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.
