La Cienega, New Mexico Weather
La Cienega, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for La Cienega, Santa Fe County.
Full aviation weather for La Cienega is published on the Santa Fe Municipal Airport (KSAF) page, 7 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 La Cienega 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 La Cienega: Los Alamos Airport (KLAM) 37 km
Conditions reported at KSAF describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at La Cienega specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for La Cienega.
About La Cienega, New Mexico
La Cienega breathes a quiet dignity under the vast New Mexico sky, a place where the land itself seems to hold its breath in the high desert air. It lies 13.8 miles south-west of Santa Fe, NM (from Santa Fe, NM: bearing 232°T), and is situated 8.8 miles south-west of Agua Fria. The terrain here is a study in subtle transitions, a gentle unfurling of ochre and sagebrush country that slopes towards distant, blue-hazed mesas. Low-slung adobe structures, their walls softened by decades of sun and wind, huddle against the elements, their doorways often open to the brilliant, sharp light that defines the region. The air, particularly in the late afternoon, carries a dry, sweet scent of creosote and dust, a perfume unique to this arid embrace, and the silence is often broken only by the whisper of wind through sparse grasses or the distant, lonely cry of a hawk. The history of La Cienega is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring spirit of a people who learned to coax life from this challenging soil. For generations, this fertile stretch, fed by underground springs that give La Cienega its name, has been a haven for agriculture, its fields a testament to resilience and hard work. Local ranches, many still in operation, raise cattle that graze on the tough native grasses, their livelihoods tied to the land's bounty. The economy here, while modest, thrives on this connection to the earth, a quiet industriousness that hums beneath the surface of everyday life. It's a place where time seems to move with a different cadence, less hurried, more attuned to the slow, deliberate cycles of the natural world, a quality that imbues La Cienega with a unique and grounding character.
Live animated radar for La Cienega 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 | La Cienega, Santa Fe County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 35.562811°N, 106.130856°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87036, 87507 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This La Cienega, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for La Cienega, 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 La Cienega includes coordinates 35.562811°N, 106.130856°W, situated in Santa Fe County. ZIP code 87036, 87507. 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.
