Colorado City, Colorado Weather
Colorado City, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Colorado City, Pueblo County.
Full aviation weather for Colorado City is published on the Spanish Peaks Airfield (K4V1) page, 28 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 Colorado City 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 Colorado City: Silver West Airport (KC08) 48 km · Pueblo Memorial Airport (KPUB) 48 km · Cuchara Valley At La Veta Airport (K07V) 49 km · Fremont County Airport (K1V6) 59 km
Conditions reported at K4V1 describe the airfield itself. Weather 28 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Colorado City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Colorado City.
About Colorado City, Colorado
Colorado City lies in a wide, arcing basin where the plains begin their slow, persistent push against the foothills. It lies 24.6 miles south-south-west of Pueblo, CO (from Pueblo, CO: bearing 210°T), and is situated 11.3 miles south-east of Beulah Valley. The land here is a study in muted tones, ochre and dusty sagebrush dominating the landscape, broken only by the occasional hardy cottonwood lining the dry creek beds that scar the terrain. The sky overhead is a vast expanse, often a brilliant, unblemished blue that can feel both exhilarating and a little overwhelming, lending a crisp, dry quality to the air that carries the faint scent of sun-baked earth and distant pine. Low-slung buildings, their stucco facades weathered by decades of sun and wind, huddle together as if for mutual protection against the immensity of their surroundings, their rooftops a uniform, sun-bleached terracotta. This place was born of iron and ambition, its origins deeply tied to the burgeoning steel industry that once pulsed through the region, leaving behind a legacy of industrial grit that still lingers in the air. The Arkansas River, a ribbon of silver that winds its way through the broader valley, has long been a lifeblood, sustaining agriculture in the fertile pockets that dot the landscape and providing a constant murmur beneath the more immediate sounds of daily life. Today, the economic currents have shifted, but the memory of those grittier, more industrial days remains, a subtle undercurrent in the town's character, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who built Colorado City from the raw materials of this high plains country.
Live animated radar for Colorado City 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 | Colorado City, Pueblo County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 37.945286°N, 104.835263°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81019 |
| Area Code | 970 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Colorado City, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colorado City, Colorado, 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 Colorado City includes coordinates 37.945286°N, 104.835263°W, situated in Pueblo County. ZIP code 81019. 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. 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.
