Santa Cruz, CA 95063 Weather

Santa Cruz County11:55 AM PDT36.98°N, 122.01°W
Coastal Flood Advisory until 3:00 PM Thu

Current conditions

Sunny
62°
Sunny
Feels like 63°
High 73°·Low 50°
WindESE 1 mph
Humidity54%
Dew point46°
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover2%
UV index3 Moderate
Sunrise7:25 AM
Sunset6:21 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Saturday

    Sunny. High near 73, with temperatures falling to around 70 in the afternoon. Southwest wind around 3 mph.

  • Saturday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 50. North northeast wind 1 to 5 mph.

  • Sunday

    Sunny, with a high near 73. Northeast wind around 3 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 21 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Sunny 62°
  2. 12 PM Sunny 66°
  3. 1 PM Sunny 68°
  4. 2 PM Sunny 70°
  5. 3 PM Sunny 72°
  6. 4 PM Sunny 71°
  7. 5 PM Sunny 70°
  8. 6 PM Clear 67°
  9. 7 PM Clear 62°
  10. 8 PM Mostly Clear 60°
  11. 9 PM Mostly Clear 59°
  12. 10 PM Mostly Clear 58°
  13. 11 PM Mostly Clear 56°
  14. Sun12 AM Mostly Clear 56°
  15. 1 AM Mostly Clear 55°
  16. 2 AM Partly Cloudy 53°
  17. 3 AM Partly Cloudy 53°
  18. 4 AM Partly Cloudy 52°
  19. 5 AM Partly Cloudy 51°
  20. 6 AM Mostly Sunny 52°
  21. 7 AM Mostly Sunny 52°
  22. 8 AM Sunny 53°
  23. 9 AM Sunny 56°
  24. 10 AM Sunny 61°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 23 Mostly Clear Mostly Clear48°
  2. TodayOct 24 Sunny Sunny50°73°
  3. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny50°73°
  4. MonOct 26 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny48°71°
  5. TueOct 27 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny48°69°
  6. WedOct 28 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny50°68°
  7. ThuOct 29 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny24%50°66°
  8. FriOct 30 Chance Rain Showers Chance Rain Showers29%65°
  9. SatOct 31 Sunny Sunny48°68°
  10. SunNov 1 Sunny Sunny48°67°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

21
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Forecast

  • SatGood (43)
  • SunGood (45)
  • MonGood

Santa Cruz, CA reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:25 AM
Sunset 6:21 PM
Daylight 10 h 56 min (−2 min 11 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 97% lit
Moonrise 5:15 PM Moonset 5:48 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

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Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in MTR, issued 2 hrs ago

Key Messages

Updated at 914 AM PDT Sat Oct 24 2026

- Near normal temperatures this weekend, cooling to slightly below normal through the remainder of the upcoming week

- Coastal flooding due to astronomical high tides and thermal expansion this weekend through Thursday

Update

Issued at 914 AM PDT Sat Oct 24 2026

Offshore winds are diminishing across the Mayacamas and Vaca mountain ranges with Mount Saint Helena gusting to 40 mph currently (peaked at 63 mph at 1:10 AM PDT). Aside from some patchy fog in the southern portion of the Salinas Valley, skies are clear across much of the region. No updates anticipated this morning as the ongoing forecast remains on track.

RGass

Short Term

Issued at 1038 PM PDT Fri Oct 23 2026 (Today and tonight)

Gusty offshore flow across the North Bay Interior Mountains is ongoing tonight, with the windy and dry conditions dropping MinRH values in the 20s for some locations. Fire weather concerns would be higher for this area had we not received the recent wetting rainfall. The offshore flow regime should mostly limit fog development early this morning but still can't be ruled out entirely in some of the river valleys in Sonoma County.

Temperatures today will be around 5 degrees warmer than Friday and near normal for this time of year. The gusty winds across the North Bay will begin to ease by late this morning, with a beautiful day in store area wide across our CWA as upper level ridging builds overhead.

Long Term

Issued at 1038 PM PDT Fri Oct 23 2026 (Sunday through next Friday)

Sunday will almost be a carbon copy of today for the North Bay and Bay Area, with the Central Coast seeing temperatures warm another few degrees. Confidence and consensus in the synoptic pattern is poor after Monday. An upper trough shifts south to our latitude on Monday bringing a return of onshore flow, however the overall progressive pattern is struggling with the depth of the trough and how another system well offshore interacts with the flattening trough as it moves into the Great Basin. Despite the uncertainty in the overall pattern, any troughing or ridging will continue to be progressive and low amplitude, with no large temperature fluctuations or precipitation chances until the end of next week when the NBM seems to pick up on what the current ECMWF deterministic has depicted for next Friday into the weekend, troughing with increasing rain chances.

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