Oatman, Arizona Weather
Oatman, Arizona — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Oatman, Mohave County.
Full aviation weather for Oatman is published on the Sun Valley Airport (KA20) page, 17 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. 6 airfields within reach of Oatman 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 Oatman: Laughlin Bullhead International Airport (KIFP) 21 km · Eagle Airpark (KA09) 26 km · Needles Airport (KEED) 36 km · Kingman Airport (KIGM) 48 km · Lake Havasu City Airport (KHII) 51 km
Conditions reported at KA20 describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Oatman specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Oatman.
About Oatman, Arizona
Oatman clings to the rugged slopes of the Black Mountains, a place where the sun bleeds across a sky of impossible blue and the air itself seems to crackle with ancient heat. It lies 13.4 miles south-east of Bullhead City, AZ (from Bullhead City, AZ: bearing 129°T), and is situated 11.6 miles east of Fort Mohave. The landscape here is a study in raw, untamed beauty: jagged peaks rise like the broken teeth of giants, their ochre and rust hues softened by the haze of distance. Canyons, deeply scored by millennia of flash floods, snake their way through the terrain, offering pockets of shade where hardy creosote bushes and prickly pear cacti stubbornly hold their ground. The very silence of Oatman is a palpable thing, broken only by the whisper of the wind through the sparse scrub and the occasional, startling bray of a wild burro. This dusty outpost owes its existence to the discovery of gold in the late 19th century, a fever that briefly transformed its quiet canyons into a boisterous mining camp, a place where fortune hunters and saloon keepers carved out a living from the unforgiving earth. The echoes of that boomtime still resonate; weathered wooden storefronts, some repurposed for the town's modern tourism, line the main street, their facades bearing the marks of a bygone era. Today, the economy of Oatman is intrinsically linked to its past, drawing visitors eager to experience the vestiges of the Wild West, to wander among the resident wild burros descended from the pack animals of miners, and to soak in the palpable sense of history that permeates this sun-baked corner of Mohave County.
Live animated radar for Oatman 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 | Oatman, Mohave County, Arizona |
| Coordinates | 35.026392°N, 114.38357°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 86433 |
| Area Code | 928 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Oatman, Arizona Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Oatman, Arizona, 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 Oatman includes coordinates 35.026392°N, 114.383570°W, situated in Mohave County. ZIP code 86433. Telephone area code: 928. Timezone: Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix).
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.
