Jacona, New Mexico Weather
Jacona, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Jacona, Santa Fe County.
Full aviation weather for Jacona is published on the Los Alamos Airport (KLAM) page, 20 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. 2 airfields within reach of Jacona 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 Jacona: Santa Fe Municipal Airport (KSAF) 31 km
Conditions reported at KLAM describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Jacona specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Jacona.
About Jacona, New Mexico
Jacona rises from a landscape where ochre earth meets a vast, indifferent sky, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains a distant, hazy blue promise on the horizon. It lies 15.2 miles north-north-west of Santa Fe, NM (from Santa Fe, NM: bearing 337°T), and is situated 7.3 miles south-south-east of Española. The land here is a study in muted tones, a palette of sagebrush, piñon pine, and juniper clinging to rolling hills that stretch towards the Rio Grande valley. Sunlight, when it descends, casts long, theatrical shadows, turning the dry grasses to burnished gold and etching the arroyos with a deeper, ancient darkness. The air itself carries a fine, persistent dust, a whisper of the desert's patient work, and in the quiet afternoons, the only sounds are the rustle of wind through the sparse vegetation and the occasional, sharp cry of a hawk circling overhead. The history of Jacona is written in the slow erosion of its adobe structures and the enduring presence of its agricultural roots, a lineage stretching back to the indigenous peoples who first worked this land. For centuries, the fertile strips along the nearby rivers sustained life, and that connection to the earth still defines the rhythm of Jacona. While modern economies have brought changes, the essence of the place remains tied to its past, a quiet resilience in the face of shifting times. The distinctive character of Jacona is found not in grand monuments, but in the enduring spirit of its people, a steadfastness that mirrors the unyielding mountains and the timeless flow of the distant river.
Live animated radar for Jacona 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.
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| Location | Jacona, Santa Fe County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 35.890581°N, 106.042245°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87506 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Jacona, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Jacona, New Mexico, 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 Jacona includes coordinates 35.890581°N, 106.042245°W, situated in Santa Fe County. ZIP code 87506. Telephone area code: 505. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
