Whittier, CA Weather Forecast
Los Angeles County, California
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The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in tonight
It is 67° with a dew point of 61°, which is noticeable for this time of year. The sky is clear.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. The wind backs into the north around 1 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 8 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 11 PM, and it closes quickly after that.
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 0.07 in.
Pressure rises 0.03 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 61°. Tomorrow reaches 79°, 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
52–79°F across the weekThe week runs between 53° and 79°, 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 73%.
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Whittier, CA at a glance
Whittier is home to about 84,143 people in Los Angeles County, across 15 square miles. It ranks 98th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Santa Fe Springs, 3 miles away.
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Population
- 84,143 2023 est.
- Land area
- 15 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 5,744
- Forecast point
- 33.9668°N, 118.0201°W
How well can the network see Whittier?
The nearest Doppler radar is KSOX (Santa Ana Mountains, CA), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,400 ft above Whittier. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Whittier show up clearly. Whittier is closer to its radar than 79% 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 Whittier
- Santa Fe Springs, CA3 mi
- La Habra Heights, CA4 mi
- Pico Rivera, CA4 mi
- La Mirada, CA5 mi
- La Habra, CA5 mi
- Norwalk, CA5 mi
- La Puente, CA6 mi
- South El Monte, CA6 mi
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