Brantley, Alabama Weather
Brantley, Alabama — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Brantley, Crenshaw County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Brantley. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Brantley is published on the Frank Sikes Airport (K04A) page, 17 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Brantley have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Brantley: Carl Folsom Airport (K14J) 25 km · South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport (K79J) 33 km · Troy Municipal Airport at N Kenneth Campbell Field (KTOI) 39 km · Mac Crenshaw Memorial Airport (KPRN) 44 km · Fort Deposit Lowndes County Airport (K67A) 54 km
Conditions reported at K04A describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Brantley specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Brantley.
About Brantley, Alabama
Brantley rests in Crenshaw County, a quiet expanse where the Alabama landscape gently rolls, its fields yielding to stands of pine and oak. It lies 30.0 miles north-west of Enterprise, AL (from Enterprise, AL: bearing 308°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south of Luverne. The air here carries the scent of damp earth after a summer shower, and the light, especially in the late afternoon, possesses a soft, golden quality that seems to linger on the weathered wood of porches and the broad leaves of magnolias. The terrain is characterized by a fertile, loamy soil, crisscrossed by small creeks and drainage ditches that feed into the larger waterways of the region, the very veins of the land. Life in Brantley unfolds at a pace dictated by the sun's arc and the changing seasons, a steady beat that has characterized this corner of the state for generations. The founding of Brantley is rooted in the agricultural heritage of this part of Alabama, its economy long tied to the bounty of the land, from cotton fields that once stretched wide to the timber that still fuels local industry. The legacy of its past is visible in the sturdy, no-nonsense architecture of its older buildings, each brick and beam telling a silent story of hard work and resilience. While the precise economic engines may have shifted over time, a sense of local pride persists, a quiet understanding of the enduring spirit of this place. Visitors might notice the absence of grand monuments, but they will find in Brantley a genuine character, a place that has weathered the storms of time and continues to offer a peaceful, grounded existence to its inhabitants.
Live animated radar for Brantley and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Brantley, Crenshaw County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 31.582383°N, 86.257179°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 36703, 36009 |
| Area Code | 334, 251 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Brantley, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Brantley, Alabama, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Brantley includes coordinates 31.582383°N, 86.257179°W, situated in Crenshaw County. ZIP code 36703, 36009. Telephone area code: 334, 251. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
