Brilliant, Alabama Weather
Brilliant, 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 Brilliant, Marion County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Brilliant. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Brilliant is published on the Marion County Rankin Fite Airport (KHAB) page, 24 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 Brilliant 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 Brilliant: Posey Field (K1M4) 32 km · Richard Arthur Field (KM95) 36 km · Lamar County Airport (KM55) 38 km · Walker County Airport Bevill Field (KJFX) 43 km · Bill Pugh Field (KM22) 47 km
Conditions reported at KHAB describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Brilliant specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Brilliant.
About Brilliant, Alabama
Brilliant rests in a landscape where the earth gently folds, a place of red clay and tenacious pine. It lies 53.7 miles south of Florence, AL (from Florence, AL: bearing 185°T), and is situated 7.5 miles north-north-east of Winfield. The air here, especially in the humid embrace of summer afternoons, carries the scent of damp soil and the distant hum of cicadas, a sound that seems to rise from the very bedrock. Sunlight, when it breaks through the dense canopy of mixed hardwoods and pines that edge the cleared fields, falls in luminous shafts, illuminating dust motes dancing in the stillness. The terrain, not dramatic but persistent in its subtle inclines, suggests a long, slow shaping by water and wind, an ancient conversation between the land and the elements. The character of Brilliant is in its quiet persistence, a place that has weathered its seasons with a steady, unshowy resilience. The history of Brilliant is intertwined with the earth’s bounty, a story told in the cleared timberland and the echoes of forgotten industries. Once, this region was a canvas for logging operations, the towering pines felled and rafted down the waterways, a testament to the raw material the land offered. Later, the quiet hum of agriculture took root, with fields of cotton and corn stretching under the wide sky, a rhythm of planting and harvest that still informs the local pace. The economy, though diversified now, retains a connection to these foundational elements, with a sturdy agricultural base and a growing presence of small, independent businesses. There’s a sense of continuity here, a local pride in the enduring spirit of Brilliant, a place that has always known how to make something of what the land provides.
Live animated radar for Brilliant 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 | Brilliant, Marion County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 34.02538°N, 87.758357°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 35548, 35594 |
| Area Code | 205 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Brilliant, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Brilliant, 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 Brilliant includes coordinates 34.025380°N, 87.758357°W, situated in Marion County. ZIP code 35548, 35594. Telephone area code: 205. 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.
