Los Alamos, New Mexico Weather
Los Alamos, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Los Alamos, San Miguel County.
Full aviation weather for Los Alamos is published on the Las Vegas Municipal Airport (KLVS) page, 9 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.
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.
Conditions reported at KLVS describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Los Alamos specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Los Alamos.
About Los Alamos, New Mexico
Los Alamos rises from the Pajarito Plateau, a broad, windswept expanse where the earth's deep ochre tones give way to the muted greens of piñon and juniper. It lies 44.2 miles east of Santa Fe, NM (from Santa Fe, NM: bearing 86°T), and is situated 10.4 miles north-north-east of Las Vegas. The air here carries a crispness, a scent of dry pine and distant, snow-capped peaks that scrape the vast, cerulean sky. Canyons, etched deep by millennia of wind and water, carve dramatic clefts into the landscape, their shadowed depths hinting at a wilder, untamed past. The light, especially as the sun begins its descent, possesses a remarkable clarity, painting the mesas in hues of rose and gold, a fleeting, ethereal beauty that settles over the land like a whispered promise. This is a place forged by science, a history that hangs in the air as palpably as the scent of sagebrush. Los Alamos, once a remote dude ranch, became the crucible of atomic innovation during World War II, its isolation a strategic advantage. The legacy of that intense period, of brilliant minds grappling with the very forces of nature, still informs the character of the community, a blend of scientific inquiry and rugged, independent spirit. The local economy, while rooted in research and development, also draws sustenance from the enduring natural beauty, attracting visitors who come to hike the mesa trails, explore the Valles Caldera National Preserve, or simply breathe the clean, high-desert air. The quiet hum of laboratories mingles with the rustle of wind through the pines, a unique symphony of human endeavor and the enduring pulse of the land.
Live animated radar for Los Alamos 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 | Los Alamos, San Miguel County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 35.731987°N, 105.151674°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87745, 87544 |
| Area Code | 575, 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Los Alamos, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Los Alamos, 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 Los Alamos includes coordinates 35.731987°N, 105.151674°W, situated in San Miguel County. ZIP code 87745, 87544. Telephone area code: 575, 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.
