Santa Rosa, Texas Weather
Santa Rosa, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Santa Rosa, Cameron County.
Full aviation weather for Santa Rosa is published on the Mid Valley Airport (KTXW) page, 17 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. 6 airfields within reach of Santa Rosa 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 Santa Rosa: Valley International Airport (KHRL) 17 km · South Texas International at Edinburg Airport (KEBG) 36 km · McAllen Miller International Airport (KMFE) 42 km · Port Isabel Cameron County Airport (KPIL) 49 km · Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport (KBRO) 56 km
Conditions reported at KTXW describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Santa Rosa specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Santa Rosa, Texas
Santa Rosa rests under a sky that often burns a fierce, cloudless blue, a vast expanse stretching over a landscape of scrubby mesquite and hardy huisache that cling tenaciously to the flat, sandy earth. It lies 9.2 miles west-north-west of Harlingen, TX (from Harlingen, TX: bearing 300°T), and is situated 9.2 miles north-east of Mercedes. The air here carries the dry, earthy scent of the brush country, a perfume deepened by the occasional, fleeting sweetness of blooming wildflowers after a rare rainfall. Sunlight, sharp and unapologetic, gleams off the corrugated metal roofs of modest homes and the weathered flanks of pickup trucks, illuminating a stillness that is punctuated only by the distant hum of highway traffic or the sharp cry of a hawk circling overhead. The terrain, relentlessly level, offers an unobstructed view of the horizon, where the land seems to melt into the shimmering heat haze, a subtle mirage that lends a dreamlike quality to the otherwise stark, pragmatic beauty of Santa Rosa. This corner of Cameron County, though seemingly remote, is woven into the enduring legacy of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Historically, its development was tied to the agricultural bounty of the region, with cotton and citrus once dominating the nearby fields, their prosperity now a faded echo in the present-day economy, which leans more towards trucking, logistics, and the service industry catering to travelers traversing the nearby international bridges. The land itself, though not overtly dramatic, holds a quiet resilience, shaped by generations who understood its capacity for both harshness and sustenance. The very essence of Santa Rosa is in this persistence, in the unpretentious lives lived under the immense Texas sky, a testament to a spirit that finds beauty not in grand pronouncements, but in the steady, enduring pulse of everyday existence.
Live animated radar for Santa Rosa 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 | Santa Rosa, Cameron County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 26.25674°N, 97.824996°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78593 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Santa Rosa, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Santa Rosa, Texas, 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 Santa Rosa includes coordinates 26.256740°N, 97.824996°W, situated in Cameron County. ZIP code 78593. Telephone area code: 830. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
