Penryn, California Weather
Penryn, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Penryn, Placer County.
Full aviation weather for Penryn is published on the Auburn Municipal Airport (KAUN) page, 14 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 Penryn 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 Penryn: Lincoln Regional Karl Harder Field (KLHM) 17 km · McClellan Airfield (KMCC) 29 km · Sacramento Mather Airport (KMHR) 35 km · Sacramento International Airport (KSMF) 40 km · Rancho Murieta Airport (KRIU) 41 km
Conditions reported at KAUN describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Penryn specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Penryn.
About Penryn, California
Penryn rests in a sun-drenched embrace of rolling foothills, where the air, especially in the late afternoon, carries the faint, sweet perfume of ripening orchards. It lies 5.5 miles north-east of Rocklin, CA (from Rocklin, CA: bearing 40°T), and is situated 9.4 miles north-east of Roseville. The landscape here is a study in gentle slopes, a subtle yielding of the earth that allows for broad vistas of distant, hazy mountains and the occasional glint of a slow-moving creek. Oak trees, their branches gnarled and expansive, stand as silent sentinels, their leaves a vibrant green in the spring and a burnished gold come autumn. Scattered homes and farms dot the terrain, their roofs catching the light, suggesting lives lived with a quiet, grounded rhythm, a testament to the enduring appeal of this particular patch of California earth. The history of Penryn is deeply entwined with the golden promise of the Sierra Nevada foothills, a legacy of the Gold Rush era that still whispers through the region. While the feverish scramble for gold has long since subsided, the spirit of enterprise and adaptation remains, now finding its expression in the abundant fruit orchards that define the local economy. Growers here cultivate a bounty of peaches, plums, and other stone fruits, their harvest celebrated each year with a palpable sense of community pride. This agricultural heartland, with its venerable packing sheds and roadside stands, offers a tangible connection to the land and its enduring fertility, a stark and beautiful contrast to the ephemeral glitter of gold that first drew people to these hills.
Live animated radar for Penryn 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 | Penryn, Placer County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.852122°N, 121.169393°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95663 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Penryn, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Penryn, 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 Penryn includes coordinates 38.852122°N, 121.169393°W, situated in Placer County. ZIP code 95663. 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.
