Salton Sea Beach, California Weather
Salton Sea Beach, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Salton Sea Beach, Imperial County.
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About Salton Sea Beach, California
Salton Sea Beach unfurls along the arid edge of a vast, inland sea, a place where the sun bleaches the skeletal remains of palm trees and the air hums with a dry, persistent warmth. It lies 23.1 miles south-south-east of Coachella, CA (from Coachella, CA: bearing 156°T), and is situated 6.2 miles north-north-west of Salton City. The landscape here is a stark, beautiful testament to geological forces and human intervention, a flat expanse meeting a shimmering, often opaque horizon. Dust devils dance across the cracked earth, their ephemeral forms mirroring the transient nature of the human settlements that have sprung up and faded around this unique body of water. The light, especially as dusk approaches, casts long, indigo shadows that bleed into the muted tones of the desert scrub, lending a surreal, almost dreamlike quality to the endless sky. This stretch of shore is a whisper of a more hopeful past, a place where dreams of a desert Riviera once shimmered, fueled by the accidental creation of the Salton Sea itself. Once, this was a vibrant resort area, its economy tied to the booming tourism of the mid-20th century, echoing with the laughter of vacationers. Now, the economy here is more subdued, a quiet hum of agriculture in the surrounding fertile lands, the lifeblood of Imperial County, providing a stark contrast to the languid, almost forgotten feel of Salton Sea Beach itself. The air, thick with the scent of distant citrus groves and the mineral tang of the sea, carries stories of boom and bust, of a community clinging to the edge of a marvel, a man-made anomaly that continues to shape its destiny.
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| Location | Salton Sea Beach, Imperial County, California |
| Coordinates | 33.375035°N, 116.011946°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 92274 |
| Area Code | 714 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Salton Sea Beach, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Salton Sea Beach, California, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Salton Sea Beach includes coordinates 33.375035°N, 116.011946°W, situated in Imperial County. ZIP code 92274. Telephone area code: 714. Timezone: Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
