At an airfield/3.5 mi away/240 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/California/Santa Maria
Santa Maria, California
City in Santa Barbara County, California* WHAT...Temperatures up to 95 expected. * WHERE...Coastal areas of southwest California * WHEN...Until 8 PM PDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses.
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. In the event of a nearby wildfire, smoke may increase heat and physical stress. If smoke impacts your area; 1) Have a cooling plan in place as smoke could limit your ability to cool your home through open windows and 2) If you have air conditioning, set on air recirculation within the home to avoid smoke exposure. Local officials may have additional guidance.
65°
85°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 65°·Light breeze 5 mph NE
Alert. A Heat Advisory is in force for Santa Maria until 8 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Santa Maria is 65° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 61° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 90°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 67°. Rain is possible Tuesday (49%) and Wednesday (48%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:46 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
53%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
65feels65
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
8553
12mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
9059
15mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8864
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
8058
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7154
14mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6751
49%
Wed
Oct 21
6850
48%
65°
85°53°
90°59°
88°64°
80°58°
71°54°
67°51°
68°50°
As of 8:00 PM in Santa Maria, California.
Air quality
The air at Santa Maria
Index 42, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Santa Maria (CA), 6 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good8.6 mi
- Ozone38Good32 ppb6.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)42Good6.6 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide7Good7.2 ppb6.6 mi
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- ModerateFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Santa Maria
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Santa Maria, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Santa Maria, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Santa Maria, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank44of 4,465
Citizen station FW4729FW4729
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/278 ft/59 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert #75CASC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.6 mi away/735 ft/516 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Santa Maria 1.8 NECA-SB-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/235 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Santa Maria - Twitchell DamTWIC1
At a dam/7.2 mi away/535 ft/316 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Santa Maria Public, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.5 mi from Santa Maria, California. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 7:51 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
65.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,900 ft up.
The wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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