Tehachapi weather
Right now in Tehachapi it is 50°F and clear, with wind NNW at 10 mph. The live pass verdict for the corridor Tehachapi serves is below.
Tehachapi Pass is open. It is 50 degrees at Tehachapi Pass. 1 lane closure is active on the corridor, listed below.
Last updated at: 2:57 AM Pacific · Caltrans
Next 24 hours
Day by day
Clear, with a low around 48. North wind around 10 mph.
Sunny. High near 65, with temperatures falling to around 60 in the afternoon. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Mostly clear, with a low around 49. North northeast wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunny, with a high near 67. East northeast wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Clear, with a low around 50. North northeast wind around 5 mph.
Sunny, with a high near 68. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Mostly clear, with a low around 51. North wind around 5 mph.
Sunny, with a high near 68. North northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Mostly clear, with a low around 47. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunny, with a high near 68. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Forecast: National Weather Service (HNX office). Times Pacific.
Tehachapi is the rare California town that sits higher than the pass named for it: about 3,970 feet in the Tehachapi Mountains, with the SR-58 summit crossing a few miles east at 3,793. Its weather is true mountain weather, four seasons of it, with snow most winters, hard wind in every season, and summer nights cool enough to be famous for apples and stargazing.
The town serves the pass in every sense: railroad crews, wind farm technicians, truckers staging for the descent, and commuters to both Bakersfield and the Antelope Valley. Its forecast on this page is the best single proxy for the corridor's mountain segment, the stretch with no cameras, and locals treat a Tehachapi snow morning as the pass's snow morning, because it is.
Driving note
Tehachapi is the last full services before the summit eastbound and the first after it westbound. Mojave is about 25 minutes east; Bakersfield about 40 minutes west.