Leighton, Alabama Weather
Leighton, 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 Leighton, Colbert County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Leighton. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Leighton is published on the Northwest Alabama Regional Airport (KMSL) page, 9 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. 5 airfields within reach of Leighton 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 Leighton: Bill Pugh Field (KM22) 33 km · Posey Field (K1M4) 47 km · Pryor Field Regional Airport (KDCU) 54 km · Iuka Airport (K15M) 59 km
Conditions reported at KMSL describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Leighton specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Leighton.
About Leighton, Alabama
Leighton rests in a quiet corner of Colbert County, where the rolling hills of the Tennessee Valley begin to soften into gentler slopes. It lies 10.8 miles south-east of Florence, AL (from Florence, AL: bearing 129°T), and is situated 8.4 miles east-south-east of Muscle Shoals. The land here is a patchwork of cultivated fields – some emerald green with growing crops, others ochre with freshly turned earth – interspersed with stands of mature oak and pine. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint sweetness of ripening fruit and the damp, earthy scent of the nearby Shoals. A languid creek, barely a murmur through the summer heat, snakes its way through the landscape, its banks fringed with wild dogwood and sumac, offering a cool, shadowed contrast to the sun-drenched clearings. The history of Leighton is tied to the fertile soil and the persistent spirit of those who have worked it. Once a more bustling hub, its economy, like many in the region, has shifted from the dominance of agriculture to a more diversified, though still modest, base. The echoes of a past built on cotton and timber can still be felt, a quiet hum beneath the present day. While no grand monuments mark its history, the enduring character of Leighton lies in its enduring connection to the land and the unpretentious rhythm of its people, a steady pulse that continues to define this particular stretch of Alabama.
Live animated radar for Leighton 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 | Leighton, Colbert County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 34.700923°N, 87.528915°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 35646 |
| Area Code | 256 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Leighton, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Leighton, 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 Leighton includes coordinates 34.700923°N, 87.528915°W, situated in Colbert County. ZIP code 35646. Telephone area code: 256. 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.
