Los Luceros, New Mexico Weather
Los Luceros, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Los Luceros, Rio Arriba County.
Full aviation weather for Los Luceros is published on the Los Alamos Airport (KLAM) page, 32 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. 3 airfields within reach of Los Luceros 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 Los Luceros: Taos Regional Airport (KSKX) 50 km · Santa Fe Municipal Airport (KSAF) 55 km
Conditions reported at KLAM describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Los Luceros specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Los Luceros.
About Los Luceros, New Mexico
Los Luceros rests on a broad, sun-baked mesa, a place where the sky feels impossibly vast and the earth stretches out in shades of ochre and sage. It lies 29.8 miles north-north-west of Santa Fe, NM (from Santa Fe, NM: bearing 348°T), and is situated 8.4 miles north-north-east of Española. The landscape here is a study in subtle resilience, with hardy piñon and juniper trees clinging to rocky outcrops, their branches gnarled like ancient hands. The air, especially in the quiet hours before dawn or as the sun bleeds into the western horizon, carries the dry, clean scent of dust and distant pine, a fragrance that seems to seep into the very bone. Far below, the Chama River carves its serpentine path through the earth, its presence often more felt than seen, a silver thread in the muted tapestry of the land. The history of Los Luceros is deeply entwined with the agricultural pulse of the region, a legacy that continues to shape its identity. For generations, the fertile banks of the nearby river have sustained small farms, coaxing crops from the arid soil through patient irrigation, a quiet testament to human endurance against the elements. This enduring connection to the land underpins the local economy, where ranching and a scattering of small businesses provide a livelihood, a rhythm that feels both timeless and distinctly of this place. The distinctiveness of Los Luceros is not in grand pronouncements, but in the quiet hum of existence, in the way the late afternoon sun casts long, deep shadows that seem to hold stories of those who have walked this ground before.
Live animated radar for Los Luceros 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 Luceros, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 36.109745°N, 106.046967°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87511 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Los Luceros, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Los Luceros, 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 Luceros includes coordinates 36.109745°N, 106.046967°W, situated in Rio Arriba County. ZIP code 87511. 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.
