Cheraw, Colorado Weather
Cheraw, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cheraw, Otero County.
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About Cheraw, Colorado
Cheraw lies under a vast, indifferent sky, a low-slung collection of buildings clinging to the arid plains of Otero County. It lies 60.5 miles east of Pueblo, CO (from Pueblo, CO: bearing 99°T), and is situated 8.6 miles north-north-east of La Junta. The land around Cheraw is a study in muted tones: ochre dust, pale sagebrush, and the bleached bones of long-dead cattle. The wind, a constant presence, scours the flat expanse, shaping scrubby mesquite and carrying the faint scent of dry grass. Sunlight, when it breaks through the often-hazy atmosphere, falls with a stark, unwavering intensity, bleaching the paint on weathered fences and making the corrugated metal roofs of barns gleam like tarnished silver. The air itself carries a certain dryness, a crispness that speaks of elevation and distance from any large body of water, a profound stillness broken only by the whisper of the wind or the distant bark of a dog. This corner of Colorado carries the quiet legacy of homesteaders and the grit of those who sought a living from this unforgiving soil. Cheraw’s economy, once tethered to the railroad and the hopeful cultivation of dryland farms, now finds its pulse in a more varied agricultural rhythm, with ranchers tending hardy cattle and a few tenacious farmers coaxing crops from the earth. The railroad depot, though no longer a bustling hub, stands as a silent sentinel, a reminder of the town's past connections to the wider world. Life in Cheraw moves at a pace dictated by the sun and the seasons, a deliberate unhurriedness that allows for the observation of small details: the way the light slants across the dusty main street at dusk, turning the peeling paint of the general store into shades of rose and gold, or the enduring resilience of the cottonwood trees that manage to find purchase along the intermittent flow of the Purgatoire River, a lifeline in this parched landscape.
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| Location | Cheraw, Otero County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.106952°N, 103.510218°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81030 |
| Area Code | 970 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cheraw, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cheraw, Colorado, 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 Cheraw includes coordinates 38.106952°N, 103.510218°W, situated in Otero County. ZIP code 81030. Telephone area code: 970. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
