Silver Cliff, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Silver Cliff, Custer County.
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Silver Cliff rises from the high plains, a scattering of weathered buildings against a vast, indifferent sky. It lies 42.0 miles west-south-west of Pueblo West, CO (from Pueblo West, CO: bearing 250°T), and is situated 19.6 miles west-south-west of Greenwood. The land here is a study in muted tones: ochre-colored soil, scrubby sagebrush the color of old pewter, and the distant, hazy blue of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, their jagged peaks a constant, silent promise. The air itself carries a dry, crisp bite, even in the height of summer, and the sunlight, when it falls unfiltered, possesses a keen, almost crystalline quality, as if polished by the wind. The landscape is not gentle; it is raw, exposed, a place where the elements have the final say, shaping everything from the hardy, low-lying vegetation to the stoic resilience of the few souls who call Silver Cliff home. The history of Silver Cliff is etched in the very bones of the land, a tale of boom and bust tied to the fickle promise of ore. Prospectors, drawn by whispers of precious metals, once carved their hopes into these hills, their endeavors leaving behind a ghostly legacy of abandoned mines and scattered remnants of a bygone era. Though the mines have long since fallen silent, the spirit of self-reliance persists, now channeled into the small ranches and farms that dot the surrounding terrain, their fields a testament to the enduring effort required to coax life from this arid earth. The local economy, though modest, finds its pulse in the quiet labor of these hardy inhabitants, their lives interwoven with the cycles of the sun and the seasons, a rhythm that has sustained Silver Cliff through the decades.
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| Location | Silver Cliff, Custer County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.135278°N, 105.44639°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81252 |
| Area Code | 719 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Silver Cliff, 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 Silver Cliff includes coordinates 38.135278°N, 105.446390°W, situated in Custer County. ZIP code 81252. 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.