Oatman, Arizona Weather
Oatman, Arizona — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Oatman, Mohave County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 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, 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 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. 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.
