Friendship, Arkansas Weather
Friendship, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Friendship, Hot Spring County.
Full aviation weather for Friendship is published on the Dexter B Florence Memorial Field (KADF) page, 15 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. 5 airfields within reach of Friendship 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 Friendship: Malvern Municipal Airport (KM78) 25 km · Memorial Field Airport (KHOT) 30 km · Gurdon Lowe Field (K5M8) 37 km · Kizer Field (K4F7) 57 km
Conditions reported at KADF describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Friendship specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Friendship.
About Friendship, Arkansas
Friendship, Arkansas, breathes a quiet contentment under the wide, often hazy skies of the Ouachita foothills. It lies 19.6 miles south of Hot Springs, AR (from Hot Springs, AR: bearing 171°T), and is situated 7.6 miles north-north-east of Arkadelphia. The land here rolls with a gentle persistence, a terrain softened by centuries of rain and sunlight, where the earth is a rich, loamy red. Mature oak and pine trees stand sentinel along the roadsides, their branches reaching out like welcoming arms, and in the summer months, the air hangs thick and sweet with the scent of honeysuckle and ripening peaches. The houses of Friendship are scattered, some clustered near the modest main thoroughfare, others peeking from behind stands of trees, each with its own patch of cultivated garden or sun-drenched clearing. The light here, especially as evening descends, has a particular quality, a diffused warmth that seems to seep into the very brick and wood of the buildings, casting long, forgiving shadows. This corner of Hot Spring County carries the echoes of a time when agriculture was king, and the land was worked with a steady, determined hand. Though the rhythm of life has certainly quickened, the spirit of that past lingers, a quiet pride in the resilience and self-sufficiency that has always defined Friendship. The soil, still fertile, yields bountiful harvests for those who tend it, and the local economy, while diversified, still finds its roots in the earth and the simple pleasures it provides. Small businesses, like the unassuming general store and the local diner where the coffee is always hot and the conversation easy, form the heart of the community. There's a palpable sense of belonging, a shared history in the weathered barns and the well-trodden paths that connect one homestead to another, a feeling that Friendship is a place where people have always found a way to make a good life.
Live animated radar for Friendship 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 | Friendship, Hot Spring County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 34.223148°N, 93.002952°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71860, 71665, 72027, 71923 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Friendship, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Friendship, Arkansas, 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 Friendship includes coordinates 34.223148°N, 93.002952°W, situated in Hot Spring County. ZIP code 71860, 71665, 72027, 71923. Telephone area code: 870. 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.
