Santa Rita Park, California Weather
Santa Rita Park, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Santa Rita Park, Merced County.
Full aviation weather for Santa Rita Park is published on the Los Banos Municipal Airport (KLSN) page, 24 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 Santa Rita Park 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 Santa Rita Park: Merced Regional Macready Field (KMCE) 27 km · Chowchilla Airport (K2O6) 32 km · Castle Airport (KMER) 37 km · Gustine Airport (K3O1) 40 km · Turlock Municipal Airport (KO15) 50 km
Conditions reported at KLSN describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Santa Rita Park specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Santa Rita Park.
About Santa Rita Park, California
Santa Rita Park unfurls across a flat, alluvial plain, the land here a rich, dark loam that drinks deeply of the Central Valley sun. It lies 14.1 miles east of Los Banos, CA (from Los Banos, CA: bearing 93°T), and is situated 4.6 miles north-north-east of Dos Palos. The sky above is a vast, unbroken canvas, stretching from horizon to horizon, often a brilliant, almost painful blue during the long, dry summers. Cottonwood trees, their leaves a vibrant green, line the occasional irrigation ditches, their shadows offering scant respite from the midday heat. The air itself can carry a fine, powdery dust, a constant reminder of the earth’s dry embrace. In the late afternoon, the light softens, gilding the edges of the distant Sierra Nevada foothills in a hazy, ethereal glow. This is a landscape shaped by water and agriculture, the lifeblood of Santa Rita Park flowing through a network of canals that feed the surrounding orchards and fields. For generations, the economy here has been tied to the bounty of the land, with almonds, walnuts, and stone fruits ripening under the relentless sun. The history of Santa Rita Park is one of hardy settlers, drawn by the promise of fertile soil, who carved a life from this seemingly endless expanse. Small, family-run farms still dot the landscape, their weathered barns standing as quiet testaments to enduring labor. The pace of life here is measured, dictated by the seasons and the steady turning of the earth, a quiet dignity in its unpretentious rhythm.
Live animated radar for Santa Rita Park 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 | Santa Rita Park, Merced County, California |
| Coordinates | 37.047446°N, 120.595185°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 93620, 93661, 95341 |
| Area Code | 760, 408, 669 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Santa Rita Park, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Santa Rita Park, 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 Santa Rita Park includes coordinates 37.047446°N, 120.595185°W, situated in Merced County. ZIP code 93620, 93661, 95341. Telephone area code: 760, 408, 669. 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.
