Harpersville, Alabama Weather
Harpersville, 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 Harpersville, Shelby County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Harpersville.
About Harpersville, Alabama
Harpersville sleeps in a gentle dip of the Alabama landscape, where the soil, a rich, loamy red, yields easily to the plow. It lies 21.4 miles east-south-east of Vestavia Hills, AL (from Vestavia Hills, AL: bearing 110°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north-west of Childersburg. The sky here, often a vast, unbroken blue on clear afternoons, can gather itself into bruised, dramatic clouds before a summer storm, casting a fleeting indigo shadow across the rolling hills. Fields of cotton, their bolls like small, white fists, stretch toward stands of pine and oak, their dark green a dense counterpoint to the sun-bleached fields. The air itself carries a humid sweetness, thick with the scent of pine needles and the distant hum of cicadas, a constant, low thrum that marks the slow, steady pulse of this place. The houses, mostly modest and painted in muted colors, seem to settle comfortably into the land, their porches worn smooth by generations of quiet observation. The history of Harpersville is written in the slow turning of the seasons and the enduring spirit of its people, many of whom trace their lineage back to the earliest settlers who saw the potential in this fertile ground. The local economy, once heavily reliant on agriculture – cotton and timber forming the backbone of its prosperity – has seen shifts, yet the land remains central. Small farms still dot the landscape, their produce finding its way to local markets, while a quiet industriousness hums beneath the surface, a testament to the resilience of a community that has weathered economic changes with a practical grace. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions in Harpersville; its character is found in the weathered barns that stand sentinel over fields, the unpretentious beauty of a roadside church, and the unhurried greetings exchanged between neighbors on a shaded lane.
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| Location | Harpersville, Shelby County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 33.344°N, 86.438036°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 35078 |
| Area Code | 205, 256 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Harpersville, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Harpersville, 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 Harpersville includes coordinates 33.344000°N, 86.438036°W, situated in Shelby County. ZIP code 35078. Telephone area code: 205, 256. 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.
