Fort Garland, Colorado Weather
Fort Garland, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Fort Garland, Costilla County.
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About Fort Garland, Colorado
Fort Garland stands as a sentinel on the wide, sun-baked plains of the San Luis Valley. It lies 72.7 miles south-west of Pueblo, CO (from Pueblo, CO: bearing 219°T), and is situated 15.8 miles north of San Luis. The land here is a canvas of muted earth tones, stretching towards the distant, jagged peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, their snow-capped crowns often softened by the hazy, high-altitude light. Sagebrush, tough and resilient, clusters in hardy clumps, its silvery-green leaves catching the persistent breeze that whispers across the open country. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a mixture of dust, piñon pine, and the faint, sweet perfume of wild grasses that, even in their dormancy, suggest a deep, enduring vitality. The sky overhead is vast and often an astonishing, unbroken blue, a dome that seems to press down upon the low-slung buildings and the quiet, unhurried life of Fort Garland. This place, once a vital military outpost, now breathes a different kind of existence, its history etched not in grand monuments but in the very shape of the land and the enduring spirit of its inhabitants. The economy here, like the land, is rooted in the soil, with agriculture and ranching forming the backbone of its sustenance. Irrigation ditches, silver threads against the ochre earth, speak of a determined taming of the arid landscape, bringing life to alfalfa fields and pastures. The adobe walls of the old fort, weathered and softened by decades of sun and wind, still whisper tales of cavalrymen and settlers, of a frontier spirit that shaped this remote corner of the American West. A palpable sense of continuity pervades Fort Garland, a quiet acknowledgment of the generations who have found their way here, drawn by the promise of open space and the stark, untamed beauty of the valley.
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| Location | Fort Garland, Costilla County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 37.428897°N, 105.4339°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81133 |
| Area Code | 719 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fort Garland, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fort Garland, 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 Fort Garland includes coordinates 37.428897°N, 105.433900°W, situated in Costilla County. ZIP code 81133. Telephone area code: 719. 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.
