Monticello, Arkansas Weather
Monticello, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Monticello, Drew County.
Full aviation weather for Monticello is published on the Monticello Municipal Ellis Field (KLLQ) page, 4 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 Monticello 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 Monticello: Warren Municipal Airport (K3M9) 28 km · Star City Municipal Airport (K55M) 34 km · Billy Free Municipal Airport (K0M0) 37 km · McGehee Municipal Airport (K7M1) 40 km · Z M Jack Stell Field (KCRT) 51 km
Conditions reported at KLLQ describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Monticello specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Monticello.
About Monticello, Arkansas
Monticello dreams under a wide Arkansas sky, its landscape a gentle unfolding of pine-studded hills and fertile bottomlands. It lies 43.2 miles south-south-east of Pine Bluff, AR (from Pine Bluff, AR: bearing 164°T), and is situated 8.1 miles east of Wilmar. The air here, especially in the languid afternoons of summer, carries the sweet, earthy scent of freshly turned soil and the distant hum of cicadas, a sound that seems to deepen with the fading light. Ditches along the roadsides are often carpeted with wildflowers, their bright colors a fleeting punctuation against the verdant green of the surrounding woods, hinting at the wilder, untamed beauty that still holds sway just beyond the tidy houses and manicured lawns. The terrain itself, a soft undulation rather than a dramatic rise, lends a quiet, unassuming character to the place, as if the land itself breathes a slow, steady rhythm. This quiet corner of Drew County has roots reaching back to a time when cotton fields stretched as far as the eye could see, and the local economy, then as now, was deeply intertwined with the bounty of the earth. While agriculture remains a cornerstone, with soybeans and timber adding to the traditional crops, Monticello has also found new life as a hub for education, home to the University of Arkansas at Monticello, which brings a vibrant energy and a fresh current of thought to the community. The legacy of those earlier days is still palpable, however, in the enduring spirit of its people and in the way the town itself seems to pause, as if listening to the echoes of its past, before continuing its unhurried progression into the present.
Live animated radar for Monticello 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 | Monticello, Drew County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 33.628997°N, 91.790964°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71655, 71656, 71657 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Monticello, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Monticello, 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 Monticello includes coordinates 33.628997°N, 91.790964°W, situated in Drew County. ZIP code 71655, 71656, 71657. 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.
