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San Francisco, CA wind

San Francisco, CA is a land weather station near Chinatown in the San Francisco Bay sailing area. Readings from NOAA NDBC.

Latest observation

Now 7 kn from S (190°), gusting 10 kn, 2026-11-04 00:30 UTC (Tuesday 3 Nov 16:30 America/Los_Angeles). Air 16°C. 1016 hPa.

The last 24 hours

24 h: mean 3 kn, 78 readings, gust 13 kn, peak mean 8 kn, mostly SSE (168°).

Recent readings

Position 37.806, -122.466; exposure coastal. San Francisco, CA is on the shore: it reads sea wind well, land wind less so.

Forecast against this station

Judged on the forecast published by 6 am the same morning, over the last 7 days ECMWF IFS 0.25° has had the smallest wind-speed error at San Francisco, CA: 2.1 kn on average across 50 hourly comparisons, against 3.4 kn for HRRR 3 km (NOAA).

Judged on the forecast published by 6 pm the evening before, over the last 7 days ECMWF IFS 0.25° has had the smallest wind-speed error at San Francisco, CA: 2.1 kn on average across 50 hourly comparisons, against 4.3 kn for HRRR 3 km (NOAA).

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