Novato, CA Weather Forecast
Marin County, California
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The next few hours
Coastal Flood Advisory in effect for this location
A Coastal Flood Advisory is in effect for this location. It runs for about another 75 hours.
It is 73° with a dew point of 47°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is clear. The air is close to calm.
The wind backs into the west around 4 PM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. 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
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 52°. Tomorrow tops out near 72°.
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
44–75°F across the weekThe week runs between 46° and 75°, with today the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Monday is the coolest day in it. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 83%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Novato, CA at a glance
Novato is home to about 51,722 people in Marin County, across 27 square miles. It ranks 173rd by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Fairfax, 7 miles away.
- County
- Marin County
- Population
- 51,722 2023 est.
- Land area
- 27 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,890
- Forecast point
- 38.0851°N, 122.5483°W
How well can the network see Novato?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDAX (Sacramento, CA), to the ENE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,100 ft above Novato. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Novato can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KDVO (Novato/Gnoss Fld). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Novato
- Fairfax, CA7 mi
- San Anselmo, CA7 mi
- San Rafael, CA8 mi
- Larkspur, CA10 mi
- Corte Madera, CA11 mi
- Petaluma, CA12 mi
- Mill Valley, CA12 mi
- Richmond, CA14 mi
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