El Centro, CA Weather Forecast
Imperial County, California
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The next few hours
A dry evening, clear
It is 66° with a dew point of 43°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is clear. The air is close to calm.
The wind turns to the east-northeast around 10 AM. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 58°. Tomorrow reaches 84°, 15° warmer than today. It also gets muggier, so tomorrow will feel warmer than the number on its own suggests.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
51–84°F across the weekThe week runs between 57° and 84°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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El Centro, CA at a glance
El Centro is home to about 43,772 people in Imperial County, across 12 square miles. It ranks 197th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Imperial, 4 miles away.
- County
- Imperial County
- Population
- 43,772 2023 est.
- Land area
- 12 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,612
- Forecast point
- 32.7864°N, 115.5602°W
How well can the network see El Centro?
The nearest Doppler radar is KYUX (Yuma, AZ), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,200 ft above El Centro. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for El Centro can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KIPL (Imperial Cnty Arpt). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near El Centro
- Imperial, CA4 mi
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- Brawley, CA13 mi
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- Somerton, AZ52 mi
- San Luis, AZ53 mi
- Yuma, AZ63 mi
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