San Mateo, Florida Weather
San Mateo, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for San Mateo, Duval County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near San Mateo. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for San Mateo is published on the Jacksonville International Airport (KJAX) page, 8 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 San Mateo 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 San Mateo: Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (KCRG) 16 km · Naval Station Mayport / Admiral David L McDonald Field (KNRB) 21 km · Jacksonville Naval Air Station (Towers Field) (KNIP) 24 km · Herlong Airport (KHEG) 25 km · Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport (KFHB) 25 km
Conditions reported at KJAX describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at San Mateo specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for San Mateo.
About San Mateo, Florida
San Mateo breathes a quiet stillness, a place where the land itself seems to exhale the humid air of North Florida. It lies 7.8 miles north of Jacksonville, FL (from Jacksonville, FL: bearing 10°T), and is situated 17.6 miles north-west of Jacksonville Beach. The terrain here is a gentle, unassuming flatness, a subtle rise from the sluggish waterways that lace the landscape, hinting at the coastal plain’s proximity without the dramatic pronouncements of the ocean. Live oaks, gnarled and draped with Spanish moss like ancient beards, stand as sentinels along dusty roads, their branches reaching out in slow, deliberate gestures. The air, especially as the sun begins its descent, carries a sweet, earthy perfume of pine and damp soil, a scent that clings to everything with a soft persistence. The sky above San Mateo is a broad canvas, often painted with soft, diffused light, a gentle reminder of the vastness that surrounds this unassuming locality. This pocket of Duval County carries the echoes of a history tied to the rich, dark earth and the slow flow of its rivers. Once, timber and agriculture were the lifeblood of San Mateo, the land yielding its bounty to those who worked it with patient hands. Though the grand plantations are long gone, the spirit of cultivation endures, manifesting in small farms and the occasional roadside stand offering the season’s freshest produce. The local economy, while not bustling, possesses a steady, grounded character, a testament to the resilience of a place that has weathered change with a quiet dignity. There are no grand monuments here, no thrumming centers of industry, but rather a subtle charm in the unhurried rhythm of everyday life, a character etched not in stone but in the enduring connection between the people and the land they call home.
Live animated radar for San Mateo 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 | San Mateo, Duval County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 30.443572°N, 81.632318°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 32218, 32187 |
| Area Code | 850 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This San Mateo, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for San Mateo, Florida, 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 San Mateo includes coordinates 30.443572°N, 81.632318°W, situated in Duval County. ZIP code 32218, 32187. Telephone area code: 850. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
