Greenwood, Colorado Weather
Greenwood, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Greenwood, Custer County.
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About Greenwood, Colorado
Greenwood lies in a high mountain valley, where the Sangre de Cristo Mountains rise abruptly from the arid plains, their snow-capped peaks often catching the last, bruised light of day. It lies 22.6 miles west-south-west of Pueblo West, CO (from Pueblo West, CO: bearing 244°T), and is situated 18.3 miles south-south-east of Cañon City. The land here is a study in stark contrasts: sun-baked scrub brush and hardy grasses cling to the lower slopes, giving way to the deep, shadowed greens of piñon and juniper as the terrain climbs. A thin, persistent wind whispers through the sparse vegetation, carrying the scent of dust and distant pine, and the silence can be so profound it feels like a physical presence. The sky overhead is a vast, often startling blue, so wide and clear it seems to swallow all sound. This is country that remembers its mining past, though the pickaxes and ore carts are long gone, replaced by a quiet, resilient spirit. The local economy, once fueled by the veins of silver and gold discovered in the surrounding hills, now relies on the land's bounty in a different way, with ranches dotting the landscape and a slower, more deliberate pace of life taking hold. Visitors might still find remnants of the old boomtown days in the weathered architecture and the stories whispered by old-timers, tales of fortunes made and lost in these rugged canyons. The very air in Greenwood seems to hold the echoes of those hardscrabble years, a quiet testament to the enduring human will in the face of unforgiving nature.
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| Location | Greenwood, Custer County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.205003°N, 105.096934°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81253 |
| Area Code | 719 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Greenwood, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Greenwood, 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 Greenwood includes coordinates 38.205003°N, 105.096934°W, situated in Custer County. ZIP code 81253. Telephone area code: 719. Timezone: Mountain Time.
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.
