Saratoga, California (West Valley College Area)

Current Weather Conditions, Maps, and Forecasts

Wednesday April 29, 2026; 5:45PM

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Current Conditions

Realtime Single-sample US-EPA Air Quality Index 13 - GOOD (Using 2024 US-EPA PM2.5 conversion) Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.
Outside Temperature	73.2°F
Wind Chill	73.2°F
Heat Index	72.9°F
Dew Point	57.0°F
Humidity	57%
Barometer	29.993 inHg
Barometer Trend (3 hours)	-0.025 inHg
Wind	0 mph
Rain Rate	0.00 in/h
Garage Temperature	76.5°F
UV Index	0.7
ET	0.00 in
Radiation	352 W/m²
Using 2024 US-EPA PM2.5 conversion
Latest PM2.5 [AQI]	2.3 μg/m³ [13]

Since Midnight

High Temperature Low Temperature	79.2°F at 13:58:43 46.4°F at 06:30:46
High Heat Index Low Wind Chill	78.7°F at 13:58:43 46.4°F at 06:30:46
High Humidity Low Humidity	93% at 06:03:24 38% at 14:00:53
High Dewpoint Low Dewpoint	59.2°F at 15:54:11 44.2°F at 06:30:46
High Barometer Low Barometer	30.118 inHg at 00:21:01 29.988 inHg at 17:34:03
Today's Rain	0.00 in
High Rain Rate	0.00 in/h at 00:00:04
High Wind	7 mph from 308° (NW) at 13:23:53
Average Wind	0 mph
RMS Wind	0 mph
Vector Average Speed Vector Average Direction	0 mph 338°
High Garage Temperature Low Garage Temperature	76.5°F at 17:44:01 64.9°F at 07:58:00
High UV Low UV	4.7 at 12:44:31 0.0 at 00:00:04
High ET Low ET	0.03 in at 14:00:00 0.00 in at 00:05:00
High Radiation Low Radiation	935 W/m² at 12:54:37 0 W/m² at 00:00:04

Rain Year (1-Oct start)

Rain Year Total

19.65 in

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Weather Forecast

Forecast Created by Experimental Software Written By an Amateur With No Guarantee or Warranty or Promise of Accuracy Provided or Implied! Use at Your Own Risk! You Assume All Risk and Liability If You Use This Information in Any Way, For Any Purpose Whatsoever! See the Disclaimer Given Above!

raw forecast data generated on
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:45:02 -0700 (PDT)

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Wednesday
Night
Mostly Clear

Lo 48 °F
Precp 0%
Mostly
Clear

Thursday
Mostly Sunny

Hi 78 °F
Precp 0%
Mostly
Sunny

Thursday
Night
Mostly Clear

Lo 50 °F
Precp 1%
Mostly
Clear

Friday
Partly Sunny

Hi 80 °F
Precp 1%
Partly
Sunny

Friday
Night
Mostly Cloudy

Lo 51 °F
Precp 1%
Mostly
Cloudy

Saturday
Mostly Cloudy

Hi 73 °F
Precp 2%
Mostly
Cloudy

Saturday
Night
Mostly Cloudy

Lo 50 °F
Precp 2%
Mostly
Cloudy

Sunday
Partly Sunny

Hi 69 °F
Precp 7%
Partly
Sunny

Wednesday Night	Low of 48. Clear in the evening, with a few clouds later making it mostly clear after midnight. Humidity 48% in the evening, rising to 90% after midnight. Winds are a gentle breeze, WNW-N at 1-9 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 2-17 mph. Winds weaker in the evening.
Thursday	High of 78. Mostly sunny in the morning, with any clouds clearing to become sunny by the afternoon. Humidity 90% in the morning, lowering to 48% by the afternoon. Winds will be a gentle breeze, NNW-N at 1-9 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 3-16 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.
Thursday Night	Low of 50. Mostly clear through the night. Chance of precipitation will be 1%. Humidity 51% in the evening, rising to 89% after midnight. Winds will be a gentle breeze, WNW-NNW at 2-8 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 3-14 mph. Winds weaker in the evening.
Friday	High of 80. Partly cloudy in the morning, with some clouds clearing, making it mostly sunny by the afternoon. Chance of precipitation will be 1%. Humidity 90% in the morning, lowering to 49% by the afternoon. Winds will be a light breeze, W-WNW at 1-7 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 2-13 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.
Friday Night	Low of 51. Partly cloudy in the evening, with some increasing clouds, becoming mostly cloudy after midnight. Chance of precipitation will be 1%. Humidity 48% in the evening, rising to 86% after midnight. Winds will be a gentle breeze, WSW-WNW at 2-8 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 5-14 mph. Winds weaker in the evening.
Saturday	High of 73. Mostly cloudy in the morning, with a bit of the overcast clearing, becoming partly cloudy by the afternoon. Chance of precipitation will be 2%. Humidity 90% in the morning, lowering to 57% by the afternoon. Winds will be a gentle breeze, WSW-W at 2-8 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 5-16 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.
Saturday Night	Low of 50. Partly cloudy through the night. Chance of precipitation will be 2%. Humidity 51% in the evening, rising to 77% after midnight. Winds will be a gentle breeze, WNW at 5-8 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 8-13 mph.
Sunday	High of 69. Mostly cloudy in the morning, with a bit of the overcast clearing, becoming partly cloudy by the afternoon. Chance of precipitation will be 7%. Humidity 86% in the morning, lowering to 65% by the afternoon. Winds will be a light air, SW-WSW at 1-3 mph, gusting to a light breeze, 3-7 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.
Sunday Night	Low of 48. Mostly clear through the night. Chance of precipitation will be 4%. Humidity 53% in the evening, rising to 80% after midnight. Winds will be a gentle breeze, WSW at 3-9 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 6-17 mph. Winds weaker in the evening.
Monday	A slight chance of light rain, with a high of 68. Partly cloudy through the day. Chance of precipitation will be 22%. Humidity 83% in the morning, lowering to 60% by the afternoon. Winds will be a light breeze, S-SW at 2-5 mph, gusting to a gentle breeze, 5-10 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.
Monday Night	Low of 48. Partly cloudy through the night. Chance of precipitation will be 7%. Humidity 50% in the evening, rising to 80% after midnight. Winds will be a light breeze, W at 2-7 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 5-13 mph. Winds weaker in the evening.
Tuesday	High of 71. Partly cloudy in the morning, with some clouds clearing, making it mostly sunny by the afternoon. Chance of precipitation will be 8%. Humidity 89% in the morning, lowering to 58% by the afternoon. Winds will be a light breeze, WSW-WNW at 5 mph, gusting to a gentle breeze, 2-10 mph. Gusting winds stronger in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night	Low of 50. Mostly clear in the evening, with incoming clouds making it partly cloudy after midnight. Chance of precipitation will be 1%. Humidity 47% in the evening, rising to 77% after midnight. Winds will be a gentle breeze, WNW at 5-9 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 9-17 mph. Sustained winds stronger in the evening.
Wednesday	High of 75. Partly cloudy in the morning, with some clouds clearing, making it mostly sunny by the afternoon. Chance of precipitation will be 2%. Humidity 86% in the morning, lowering to 60% by the afternoon. Winds will be a light air, WNW at 1-3 mph, gusting to a gentle breeze, 2-8 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.

The above Experimental Forecast used the National Weather Service's NDFD XML Feed
for Saratoga, CA
(37.263°N, 122.003°W, NWS Zone CAZ513, NWS County CAC085)

Location
Latitude:	37° 15.75' N
Longitude:	122° 00.20' W
Altitude:	376 feet

This station uses a Vantage Pro2, controlled by 'WeeWX', an experimental weather software system written in Python. Weewx was designed to be simple, fast, and easy to understand by leveraging modern software concepts.

RSS feed

Smartphone formatted

WeeWX uptime: 4 days, 15 hours, 26 minutes
Server uptime: 4 days, 15 hours, 26 minutes
weewx v5.3.1

Sun
Start civil twilight:	05:46:40
Sunrise:	06:15:05
Transit:	13:05:18
Sunset:	19:56:05
End civil twilight:	20:24:36
Prev. Day Length:	13:38:55
Curr. Day Length:	13:41:00
Curr. Longer by:	00:02:05
Azimuth:	270.1°
Altitude:	24.7°
Right ascension:	37.3°
Declination:	14.7°
Solstice:	06/21/26 01:24:31
Equinox:	09/22/26 17:05:09

Moon
Rise:	18:23:49
Transit:	23:57:43
Set:	04:59:10
Duration Seen:	10:35
Azimuth:	98.7°
Altitude:	-8.1°
Right ascension:	198.5°
Declination:	-11.8°
Full moon:	05/01/26 10:23:06
New moon:	05/16/26 13:00:58
Phase:	Waxing gibbous (97% full)

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This system is powered by the open source WeeWX package, authored by Tom Keffer.

This system uses the open source Purple Air extensions to WeeWX package by Kenneth Baker to obtain the raw air pollutant values.

Thanks to JaneAndJohn.org for PHP-based RSS weather-feed code used in a prior iteration of this site.

Thanks to Ken True at Saratoga-Weather.org for pointers to good warning scripts, used in a prior iteration, and for being a great overall resource for scripting weather websites. Also, the idea to ignore certificate errors from the NOAA/NWS website comes from these scripts.

Thanks to Ken True at Saratoga-Weather.org and Mike Chaliss for their alerts script from which we leverage the array mapping alert event name to alert event background color, and a clever way to handle events that aren't in that mapping.

Thanks to Tom at carterlake.org for a script that caused me to want to learn how to obtain the raw data of a National Weather Service forecast, that triggered my building my own set of scripts. He has also created another great overall resource for scripting weather websites.

The raw data on which the forecasts are built, and the icons for these, come from the National Weather Service.

This system utilizes the xmlize utility written by Hans Anderson.

The URL used to get the alerts, and the idea to use cURL to get them (and any other needed JSON/XML data), comes from the "NWS Alerts" PHP package by Rick "Curly" at the WXForum web site.

The idea to use and how to properly invoke the xmlize library to extract information from the NWS comes from PXWeather by Jonathan M. Abbett.

The algorithms used to either adjust the Purpleair sensor PM2.5 pollutant concentrations or to convert from PM2.5 pollutant concentrations to an AQI value come from multiple sources.

If you want to see the clumsy way I integrate WeeWX and PHP, click here.