Union, Alabama Weather
Union, 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 Union, Etowah County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Union. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Union is published on the Albertville Regional Airport/Thomas J Brumlik Field (KBFZ) 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. 2 airfields within reach of Union 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 Union: Guntersville Municipal Joe Starnes Field (K8A1) 28 km
Conditions reported at KBFZ describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Union specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Union.
About Union, Alabama
Union rests in a broad, fertile valley, a place where the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains begin to soften their edges. It lies 14.9 miles north-west of Gadsden, AL (from Gadsden, AL: bearing 312°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south of Albertville. The land here is a rich, loamy red, the kind that clings to your boots after a spring rain, and it slopes gently toward the meandering Coosa River, its waters a murky, life-giving brown. Oak and hickory trees, their branches thick with moss, crowd the edges of cultivated fields, and the air often carries the sweet, earthy scent of ripening corn. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy in the late afternoon, painting the dusty roads in stripes of gold and shadow, a quiet invitation to slow down. The history of Union is deeply entwined with the fertile soil and the river that defines its eastern boundary. Settled in the early 19th century, its economy was built on agriculture, particularly cotton and corn, sustained by the generous climate and the labor that shaped the land. Later, the proximity to the Coosa brought opportunities for milling and river transport, leaving behind whispers of a more industrial past in the occasional rusted piece of machinery half-buried in the undergrowth. Today, the rhythm of Union is dictated by the seasons, by the planting and the harvest, and the quiet hum of local businesses that serve the surrounding farms, a continuity that feels as solid as the red clay beneath your feet.
Live animated radar for Union 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 | Union, Etowah County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 34.158706°N, 86.200811°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 36280, 36279, 36853, 35462 |
| Area Code | 251, 256 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Union, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Union, 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 Union includes coordinates 34.158706°N, 86.200811°W, situated in Etowah County. ZIP code 36280, 36279, 36853, 35462. Telephone area code: 251, 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.
