Mud Bay, Alaska Weather
Mud Bay, Alaska — 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 Mud Bay, Haines.
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About Mud Bay, Alaska
Mud Bay lies like a whispered secret at the edge of Alaska's wild embrace, a low-slung landscape where the land surrenders grudgingly to the restless sea. It lies 68.5 miles north-north-west of Juneau, AK (from Juneau, AK: bearing 330°T), and is situated 5.3 miles south-south-east of Haines. Here, the earth itself seems to exhale a damp, earthy scent, a perpetual perfume of tidal flats and the ancient forests that press in from the mountains. The sky, a vast, ever-shifting canvas, can be a bruised purple at dusk, bleeding into fiery oranges and soft, diffused golds that catch the moisture-laden air, turning the world into a shimmering, ethereal watercolor. The very air hums with a quiet dampness, a constant reminder of the surrounding waters, their moods as changeable as the northern light. The terrain is a gentle, undulating expanse of sedge meadows and brackish marshes, punctuated by the dark, stoic sentinels of spruce and hemlock, their branches heavy with the memory of countless winters. This stretch of coastline, though seemingly remote, carries the deep echoes of its past. For centuries, indigenous peoples navigated these waters, their lives intricately bound to the ebb and flow of the tides and the bounty of the salmon runs. Later, the allure of gold and the promise of fur brought a different kind of restless energy to the region, though Mud Bay itself retained its character, a place more of sustenance than of frantic extraction. Today, its economy is still tethered to the sea and the land, with fishing and forestry forming the bedrock of its sustenance, a quiet, persistent rhythm that has weathered the storms of progress. The occasional floatplane, a silver dragonfly against the immense sky, is a more modern punctuation mark in the enduring narrative of Mud Bay, a place where the wild still holds sway, and the land remembers its ancient stories.
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| Location | Mud Bay, Haines, Alaska |
| Coordinates | 59.159722°N, 135.375833°W |
| Timezone | Alaska Time (America/Juneau) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 99901, 99827 |
| Area Code | 907 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mud Bay, Alaska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mud Bay, Alaska, 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 Mud Bay includes coordinates 59.159722°N, 135.375833°W, situated in Haines. ZIP code 99901, 99827. Telephone area code: 907. Timezone: Alaska Time (America/Juneau).
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.
