Jansen, Colorado Weather
Jansen, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Jansen, Las Animas County.
Full aviation weather for Jansen is published on the Perry Stokes Airport (KTAD) page, 21 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. 3 airfields within reach of Jansen 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 Jansen: Raton Municipal Airport / Crews Field (KRTN) 46 km · Cuchara Valley At La Veta Airport (K07V) 58 km
Conditions reported at KTAD describe the airfield itself. Weather 21 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Jansen specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Jansen.
About Jansen, Colorado
Jansen lies in a wide basin where the land begins its slow, patient climb toward the mesas, a place where the sky feels immense and the horizon stretches out like an unfinished thought. It lies 75.9 miles south of Pueblo, CO (from Pueblo, CO: bearing 177°T), and is situated 2.2 miles west-south-west of Trinidad. The terrain here is a study in muted earth tones, ochre and rust and the pale gold of sun-baked grasses, broken by the occasional stark silhouette of a juniper or the deeper shadow of a arroyo carved by infrequent but powerful rains. Dust devils, ephemeral dancers of the plains, sometimes spin across the flats in the afternoon heat, their swirling forms a brief, wild punctuation in the otherwise stoic stillness. The air itself carries a clean, dry scent, tinged with the faint, sweet perfume of sagebrush after a rare shower, and the silence is profound, broken only by the whisper of wind through the low scrub or the distant cry of a hawk circling in the vast blue overhead. This corner of Las Animas County, Jansen, has long been shaped by the rhythms of the land and the tenacity of its people. Its history is etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring spirit of those who sought sustenance and a livelihood from this challenging, beautiful country. For generations, the economy here has been tied to the earth, to ranching and the hardy breeds of cattle that graze on the sparse but nourishing vegetation, their patient grazing a slow, deliberate sculpting of the landscape. While coal once held sway in the region, its deeper veins now largely silent, the character of Jansen remains that of a place where independence is a virtue and where the slow, deliberate passage of time is measured not by clocks but by the changing light on the hills and the predictable cycle of seasons.
Live animated radar for Jansen 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 | Jansen, Las Animas County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 37.15716°N, 104.53815°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81082 |
| Area Code | 970 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Jansen, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Jansen, 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 Jansen includes coordinates 37.157160°N, 104.538150°W, situated in Las Animas County. ZIP code 81082. 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.
