Placentia, CA Weather Forecast
Orange County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Placentia, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in tonight
It is 67° with a dew point of 60°, which is comfortable for this time of year. The sky is clear. The air is close to calm.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. The wind backs into the east-northeast around 2 AM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. The first rain arrives between 11 PM and midnight, with the best chance of it around 7 AM.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
Wet weather moves in around 11 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.10 in.
Pressure rises 0.03 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 60°. Tomorrow reaches 80°, 11° 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
51–80°F across the weekThe week runs between 53° and 80°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Saturday is the wettest day, peaking near 68%.
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Placentia, CA at a glance
Placentia is home to about 52,192 people in Orange County, across 6.7 square miles. It ranks 169th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Brea, 3 miles away.
- County
- Orange County
- Population
- 52,192 2023 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 7,753
- Forecast point
- 33.8812°N, 117.8548°W
How well can the network see Placentia?
The nearest Doppler radar is KSOX (Santa Ana Mountains, CA), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 700 ft above Placentia. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Placentia show up clearly. Placentia is closer to its radar than 92% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KFUL (Fullerton Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Placentia
- Brea, CA3 mi
- Fullerton, CA4 mi
- Yorba Linda, CA5 mi
- Villa Park, CA5 mi
- Anaheim, CA6 mi
- La Habra, CA6 mi
- Orange, CA7 mi
- La Habra Heights, CA8 mi
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