Bayfield, CO Weather Forecast
La Plata County, Colorado
Seven-day outlook
33–59°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 59°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Sunday is the coolest day in it. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 99%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Bayfield forecast
Bayfield sits at 37.2341°N, 107.5952°W in La Plata County, Colorado. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- La Plata County
- Coordinates
- 37.2341°N, 107.5952°W
- Population
- 2,872 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 1.649 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Bayfield, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Bayfield?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGJX (Grand Junction, CO), 131 miles to the NNW. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Bayfield its center is about 14,600 ft above ground. At that range the beam overshoots the layer where severe weather organizes. The radar is describing the middle of the storm, not its base , which is why a warning for Bayfield can look unsupported on the mosaic and still be right. Trust the warning over the picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KDRO · Durango/La Plata Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 11 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Colorado observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Bayfield
- Durango, CO16 mi
- Aztec, NM36 mi
- Bloomfield, NM40 mi
- Farmington, NM46 mi
- Telluride, CO50 mi
- Cortez, CO55 mi
- Monte Vista, CO83 mi
- Montrose, CO87 mi
Elsewhere in Colorado
DenverColorado SpringsAuroraFort CollinsLakewoodThorntonAll Colorado forecasts →