Excel, Alabama Weather
Excel, Alabama — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Excel, Monroe County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Excel.
About Excel, Alabama
Excel, Alabama, breathes a quiet, humid air that clings to the dense stands of pine and oak, a verdant curtain drawn across a landscape of gentle, rolling hills. It lies 58.2 miles north of Pace, FL (from Pace, FL: bearing 349°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south of Monroeville. The earth here, a rich, reddish-brown clay, yields to the persistent sun, and in the late afternoon, the light slants through the trees in long, golden shafts, illuminating the feathery fronds of ferns and the occasional flash of a cardinal’s wing. Roads, often unpaved and winding, trace paths between scattered homes and farmsteads, their driveways lined with mailboxes that stand like solitary sentinels against the encroaching green. The very silence seems to hum with the unseen life of the woods, a constant, low thrum of cicadas and distant birdsong that forms the abiding soundtrack to daily life in Excel. Though its history is not marked by grand pronouncements, Excel’s story is etched in the quiet industry of its people and the land’s enduring bounty. For generations, the economy here has been tied to the rhythms of agriculture, with timber also playing a significant role in shaping the character of the region, its sawmills a distant echo of past prosperity. Small, family-owned businesses, often dispensing goods and advice with equal measure, form the heart of the local commerce, their signs weathered by sun and rain. The nearby waterways, tributaries of the Alabama River, have long served as arteries of commerce and recreation, their slow, muddy currents mirroring the unhurried pace of life in this corner of Monroe County.
Live animated radar for Excel 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 | Excel, Monroe County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 31.427943°N, 87.341373°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 36439, 36460 |
| Area Code | 251 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Excel, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Excel, Alabama, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Excel includes coordinates 31.427943°N, 87.341373°W, situated in Monroe County. ZIP code 36439, 36460. Telephone area code: 251. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
