Sutter Creek, California Weather
Sutter Creek, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sutter Creek, Amador County.
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About Sutter Creek, California
Sutter Creek, a place where the Sierra Nevada foothills begin their gentle descent, presents a landscape of rolling hills dusted with oak and pine, their branches reaching towards a sky that shifts from pale blue in the morning to a deep, bruised purple at dusk. It lies 25.3 miles south-east of El Dorado Hills, CA (from El Dorado Hills, CA: bearing 143°T), and is situated 7.6 miles east-north-east of Ione. The Amador County terrain here is characterized by a dry, sun-baked earth, crisscrossed by narrow, winding roads that follow the contours of the land. A certain quietude prevails, broken only by the occasional chirp of a bird or the distant hum of a car, a sound that seems to travel further in the still air. The very air itself carries a faint scent of dry grass and the resinous tang of pine needles, especially potent on warmer afternoons. The history of Sutter Creek is deeply entwined with the California Gold Rush, its origins as a mining camp still palpable in the weathered facades of its historic buildings along Main Street. Though the gold has long since been panned and sluiced away, the spirit of enterprise endures, now focused on the vineyards that blanket the surrounding hills and the burgeoning wine tourism industry. Local businesses, many housed in structures that have stood for over a century, offer artisanal goods and a taste of the region's bounty, from olive oil to locally crafted spirits. It's a place that honors its past without being entirely beholden to it, a subtle blend of the old and the new where the pace of life allows for a deliberate unfolding of the day, marked by the slow procession of sunlight across the valley floor.
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| Location | Sutter Creek, Amador County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.392968°N, 120.802436°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95685 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sutter Creek, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sutter Creek, 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 Sutter Creek includes coordinates 38.392968°N, 120.802436°W, situated in Amador County. ZIP code 95685. 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. 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.
