Peña Blanca, New Mexico Weather
Peña Blanca, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Peña Blanca, San Juan County.
Full aviation weather for Peña Blanca is published on the Four Corners Regional Airport (KFMN) page, 36 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 Peña Blanca 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 Peña Blanca: Durango La Plata County Airport (KDRO) 48 km · Animas Air Park (K00C) 53 km
Conditions reported at KFMN describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Peña Blanca specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Peña Blanca.
About Peña Blanca, New Mexico
Peña Blanca lies under a sky that stretches, vast and indifferent, over a landscape of ochre earth and sparse, resilient brush. It lies 21.8 miles east of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 91°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east of Bloomfield. The land here is a study in patient erosion, where mesas rise in blunt, weathered profiles, their flanks scored by ancient arroyos that drink the brief, violent rains. The air, when it carries scent, is dry and mineral, tinged with the faint, sweet perfume of sagebrush after a distant shower. The very light seems to have a different quality, a sharp clarity that defines every rock and shadow, softening only in the late afternoon when it bleeds into washes of rose and amber across the horizon. The history of Peña Blanca is written not in grand monuments, but in the subtle shifts of human presence against this enduring earth. For centuries, the Río Grande, a ribbon of life through this arid expanse, has dictated the fortunes of those who have settled here, its waters a lifeline for agriculture. The local economy, once tied more directly to the river's bounty and the railroad that once traversed these lands, now finds its pulse in the quiet persistence of small ranches and the enduring spirit of its people. Though the grand pronouncements of history may have passed this place by, a distinct character persists, a quiet resilience born of living in harmony with the sun-baked immensity of Sandoval County, a character that is unmistakably Peña Blanca.
Live animated radar for Peña Blanca 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 | Peña Blanca, San Juan County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 36.724172°N, 107.82534°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87412, 87041 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Peña Blanca, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Peña Blanca, 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 Peña Blanca includes coordinates 36.724172°N, 107.825340°W, situated in San Juan County. ZIP code 87412, 87041. 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.
