Egypt, 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 Egypt, Etowah County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Egypt. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Egypt is published on the Albertville Regional Airport/Thomas J Brumlik Field (KBFZ) page, 20 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. 2 airfields within reach of Egypt 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 Egypt: Guntersville Municipal Joe Starnes Field (K8A1) 38 km
Conditions reported at KBFZ describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Egypt specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Egypt.
Egypt, Alabama, unfolds with a gentle, rolling terrain, a landscape painted in broad strokes of verdant farmland and the deeper greens of scattered woodlands. It lies 9.5 miles west-north-west of Gadsden, AL (from Gadsden, AL: bearing 296°T), and is situated 8.8 miles south of Boaz. The air here, particularly as the sun begins its slow descent, carries a soft, humid warmth, fragrant with the scent of ripening crops and the damp earth that feeds them. Creeks, little more than silver ribbons glinting through the fields, thread their way across the topography, their quiet murmur a constant, subtle soundtrack to the days. The character of Egypt is one of quiet persistence, a place where the land dictates a measured pace, and the sky, often a vast, hazy blue, seems to hold the slow breath of the afternoon. The history of Egypt is intrinsically tied to the fertile soil and the waterways that have sustained it. This corner of Etowah County has long been a place of agricultural endeavor, its economy rooted in the cultivation of crops that have changed with the seasons and the demands of the market over generations. Though no grand monuments mark its past, the enduring fields themselves speak of a lineage of farmers and families who have worked this land, their labor etched into the very contours of the countryside. The distinctive character of Egypt lies not in grand pronouncements, but in the quiet continuity of life, a subtle resilience that has seen it through the ebb and flow of regional development, a place that holds its history close, much like the rich, dark earth it calls home.
Live animated radar for Egypt 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 | Egypt, Etowah County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 34.073708°N, 86.155809°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 35016, 35952 |
| Area Code | 205, 256, 334 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Egypt, 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 Egypt includes coordinates 34.073708°N, 86.155809°W, situated in Etowah County. ZIP code 35016, 35952. Telephone area code: 205, 256, 334. 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.