Dillingham, Alaska Weather
Dillingham, Alaska — 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 Dillingham, Dillingham.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Dillingham. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Dillingham is published on the Ekuk Airport (KKU) page, 26 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.
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.
Conditions reported at KKU describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Dillingham specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Dillingham.
About Dillingham, Alaska
Dillingham rests at the mouth of the Wood River, a place where the broad Nushagak River estuary meets the vast expanse of Bristol Bay, its waters often a steely grey under a sky that can shift from brilliant blue to brooding cloud in the space of an hour. It lies 330.4 miles west-south-west of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 247°T), and is situated 21.8 miles east of Manokotak. The land here is a gentle, rolling terrain, not the jagged peaks of the interior, but a softer, more yielding landscape of tundra and low-slung spruce, the air carrying the crisp, clean scent of salt and damp earth. The light, especially in the long summer evenings, can be a painterly affair, hues of rose and gold bleeding across the western horizon, casting long, dancing shadows from the scattered buildings that form the heart of Dillingham. The quiet hum of small planes overhead is a constant reminder of its isolation, yet also its vital connection to the wider world, a sound as intrinsic to the place as the distant cry of gulls. The very lifeblood of Dillingham has long been drawn from the sea, a heritage deeply entwined with the salmon runs that have sustained Indigenous peoples for millennia and later fueled the burgeoning commercial fishing industry. Canneries, some now silent ghosts of a past boom, stand as weathered monuments to this vital economic engine, their corrugated metal roofs gleaming dully in the sun. The spirit of resilience and self-reliance, honed by generations of navigating both the bounty and the challenges of this wild coast, is palpable in the steady, unhurried pace of everyday life. This is a place where the rhythm of the tides and the season of the fish dictate the flow of days, a deep connection to the natural world that shapes not just the economy, but the very character of Dillingham itself.
Live animated radar for Dillingham 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 | Dillingham, Dillingham, Alaska |
| Coordinates | 59.039722°N, 158.4575°W |
| Timezone | Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 99576 |
| Area Code | 907 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dillingham, Alaska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dillingham, Alaska, 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 Dillingham includes coordinates 59.039722°N, 158.457500°W, situated in Dillingham. ZIP code 99576. Telephone area code: 907. Timezone: Alaska Time (America/Anchorage).
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.
