Crystal Bay, Nevada Weather
Crystal Bay, Nevada — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Crystal Bay, Washoe County.
Full aviation weather for Crystal Bay is published on the Truckee Tahoe Airport (KTRK) page, 16 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 Crystal Bay 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 Crystal Bay: Carson Airport (KCXP) 24 km · Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV) 33 km · Reno Tahoe International Airport (KRNO) 36 km · Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL) 37 km · Dayton Valley Airpark (KA34) 39 km
Conditions reported at KTRK describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Crystal Bay specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Crystal Bay.
About Crystal Bay, Nevada
Crystal Bay, Nevada, unfolds as a high-altitude jewel where the Sierra Nevada's rugged embrace softens into the crystalline embrace of Lake Tahoe's northeastern shore. It lies 13.4 miles west-north-west of Carson City, NV (from Carson City, NV: bearing 289°T), and is situated 2.4 miles south-west of Incline Village. The landscape here is a dramatic interplay of granite outcroppings, their rough faces catching the sharp, clear light of the desert sun, and the deep, resonant blue of the lake itself. Pines, their needles a constant whisper against the wind, cling to slopes that plunge towards the water, their scent mingling with the dry, clean air that carries the faint, mineral tang of the surrounding mountains. In the lingering twilight, the peaks across the water turn to shades of bruised plum and rose, a silent testament to the vast, unpopulated wilderness that stretches beyond the immediate reach of human settlement. This stretch of Washoe County's shoreline, known as Crystal Bay, carries the quiet hum of a place that has long understood the rhythms of both the natural world and the transient nature of human endeavor. Its economy, once perhaps more tied to the raw extraction of timber or the hopeful whispers of mining booms, now finds its pulse in the steady flow of tourism, drawn to the unparalleled beauty of Lake Tahoe. The casinos that dot the shoreline, their lights a warm invitation against the encroaching dusk, speak to a more recent history, a blending of old Nevada grit with the allure of leisure. Yet, beneath this surface shimmer, the enduring character of Crystal Bay remains, a place where the vastness of the sky and the depth of the lake seem to lend a certain perspective, a quiet understanding of what truly endures.
Live animated radar for Crystal Bay 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 | Crystal Bay, Washoe County, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 39.226018°N, 120.004079°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 89402, 89451 |
| Area Code | 775 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Crystal Bay, Nevada Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crystal Bay, Nevada, 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 Crystal Bay includes coordinates 39.226018°N, 120.004079°W, situated in Washoe County. ZIP code 89402, 89451. Telephone area code: 775. 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.
