Fort Payne, Alabama Weather
Fort Payne, 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 Fort Payne, DeKalb County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fort Payne. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fort Payne is published on the Isbell Field (K4A9) page, 3 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 Fort Payne 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 Fort Payne: Scottsboro Municipal Word Field (K4A6) 38 km · Centre-Piedmont-Cherokee County Regional Airport (KPYP) 41 km · Barwick Lafayette Airport (K9A5) 48 km · Stevenson Airport (K7A6) 50 km · Guntersville Municipal Joe Starnes Field (K8A1) 50 km
Conditions reported at K4A9 describe the airfield itself. Weather 3 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fort Payne specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fort Payne.
About Fort Payne, Alabama
Fort Payne rises from a basin cradled by the ancient, rolling ridges of the Appalachian foothills, a place where the sky often seems a vast, bruised canvas of approaching storms or a brilliant, unblemished blue. It lies 33.9 miles north-north-east of Gadsden, AL (from Gadsden, AL: bearing 29°T), and is situated 8.1 miles east-south-east of Rainsville. The land here, etched by countless eons of wind and water, wears a mantle of dense, emerald forests, broken only by the occasional sun-drenched pasture or the determined, grey scars of quarry faces. A palpable sense of quietude often settles over Fort Payne, a stillness punctuated by the distant rumble of a train or the sharp call of a hawk circling high above. The air itself carries a unique character, a blend of damp earth and pine, especially potent after a summer shower when the very scent of the woods seems to deepen and spread. The story of Fort Payne is deeply intertwined with the very stone it commands, its economy historically rooted in the rich veins of coal and iron that once pulsed beneath its soil. More recently, the town has found a new song in the vibrant, rhythmic pulse of its music industry, a legacy born from the region's deep musical traditions that now echoes far beyond these hills. The shadow of the Civil War looms in its past, with the remnants of its namesake fort whispering tales of a different era, a stark reminder of conflicts long since settled. Today, the rhythm of life in Fort Payne is one of steady, unhurried progress, a place where the echoes of its industrial past mingle with the lively strumming of guitars, each contributing to the distinctive, enduring spirit of this DeKalb County locale.
Live animated radar for Fort Payne 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 | Fort Payne, DeKalb County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 34.444255°N, 85.719689°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 35967, 35968 |
| Area Code | 334, 205 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fort Payne, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fort Payne, 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 Fort Payne includes coordinates 34.444255°N, 85.719689°W, situated in DeKalb County. ZIP code 35967, 35968. Telephone area code: 334, 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.
