Sunnyside, California Weather
Sunnyside, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sunnyside, Placer County.
Full aviation weather for Sunnyside is published on the Truckee Tahoe Airport (KTRK) page, 20 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 Sunnyside 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 Sunnyside: Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL) 31 km · Carson Airport (KCXP) 37 km · Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV) 38 km · Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (KBLU) 50 km · Reno Tahoe International Airport (KRNO) 52 km
Conditions reported at KTRK describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sunnyside specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sunnyside.
About Sunnyside, California
Sunnyside unfolds like a rumpled quilt of emerald meadows and rugged inclines, a verdant scar carved into the Sierra Nevada foothills. It lies 20.7 miles west of Carson City, NV (from Carson City, NV: bearing 266°T), and is situated 5.8 miles south-east of Squaw Valley. The air here, especially as the sun begins its slow descent, carries a crispness, a whisper of pine and distant snowmelt that seems to cleanse the lungs. Oak trees, their branches gnarled like ancient knuckles, cast long, dancing shadows across the landscape, while manzanita bushes, their bark a polished mahogany, cling tenaciously to the sun-baked slopes. The terrain itself feels alive, a constant conversation between the patient earth and the ambitious sky, where the distant peaks of the Sierras stand sentinel, their granite shoulders dusted with the first hints of winter. The very soil of Sunnyside hums with the echoes of its past, a legacy of gold prospectors and hardy pioneers who sought their fortunes in these very hills. While the feverish rush for gold has long since subsided, its spirit lingers in the weathered facades of old buildings and the occasional glint of quartz revealed by a recent rain. Today, the economy of Sunnyside is a more grounded affair, a blend of agriculture, with orchards yielding plump fruits under the generous California sun, and the steady hum of small businesses catering to both locals and the occasional wanderer. The rhythm of life here is not dictated by the frenetic pulse of a metropolis but by the gentle turning of seasons and the quiet satisfaction of a day’s honest work, a palpable sense of continuity that binds the present to the deep roots of Sunnyside.
Live animated radar for Sunnyside 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 | Sunnyside, Placer County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.14324°N, 120.153525°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96145, 93727 |
| Area Code | 760 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sunnyside, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sunnyside, 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 Sunnyside includes coordinates 39.143240°N, 120.153525°W, situated in Placer County. ZIP code 96145, 93727. Telephone area code: 760. 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.
