Placerville, Colorado Weather
Placerville, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Placerville, San Miguel County.
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About Placerville, Colorado
Placerville, Colorado, unfolds in a high-altitude valley where the San Miguel River, a ribbon of glacial meltwater, stitches together scattered ranches and homesteads. It lies 77.2 miles south-south-east of Grand Junction, CO (from Grand Junction, CO: bearing 159°T), and is situated 12.2 miles west-north-west of Mountain Village. The surrounding landscape is a dramatic, rugged theater of towering mesas and steep, pinyon-pine clad slopes, their surfaces etched with the scars of ancient geological forces. Here, the air carries a crisp, almost brittle quality, particularly in the early mornings when the sun struggles to burn through the thin, high atmosphere, casting long, cool shadows across the sparse, hardy grasses that cling to the valley floor. The dominant color palette is a muted symphony of ochres, rusts, and the deep, resonant greens of the evergreens, punctuated by the brilliant, almost startling blue of the vast, overarching sky. The history of Placerville is deeply intertwined with the mineral wealth that once drew prospectors to these remote reaches, though the veins of gold and silver have long since run dry, leaving behind a legacy of weathered structures and forgotten dreams. Today, the local economy relies more on the land itself, with cattle ranching and a small but resilient agricultural base forming the backbone of Placerville's livelihood. The rhythm of life here is dictated by the seasons, by the needs of livestock, and by the quiet hum of machinery in the fields, a far cry from the frantic pulse of more populated centers. A distinctive quietude permeates the air, a stillness that allows the distant cry of a hawk or the rustle of wind through the sagebrush to be heard with startling clarity.
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| Location | Placerville, San Miguel County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.016659°N, 108.053403°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81430 |
| Area Code | 719 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Placerville, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Placerville, Colorado, 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 Placerville includes coordinates 38.016659°N, 108.053403°W, situated in San Miguel County. ZIP code 81430. Telephone area code: 719. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
