Manzanola, Colorado Weather
Manzanola, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Manzanola, Otero County.
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About Manzanola, Colorado
Manzanola lies under a sky that stretches wide, a canvas of blues that deepen to bruised purples at dusk. It lies 41.6 miles east-south-east of Pueblo, CO (from Pueblo, CO: bearing 104°T), and is situated 8.9 miles west-north-west of Rocky Ford. The land here is a study in patient endurance, a broad, flat expanse of ochre earth, crisscrossed by the skeletal remains of irrigation ditches that once promised a greener future. Sagebrush, a stubborn, dusty green, grips the soil, punctuated by the occasional hardy cottonwood standing sentinel along the faint murmur of the Arkansas River. The air, when it’s not carrying the scent of dry grass and distant cattle, holds a stillness that can feel both profound and a little unnerving, a silence that amplifies the whisper of the wind across the plains. This is a place that was built on the back of water, or the desperate hope for it. Manzanola’s story is written in the canals and the abandoned homesteads, a testament to the early settlers who gambled on the arid Colorado soil. The local economy, for generations, has been tethered to agriculture, to the crops that could coax sustenance from this challenging terrain, with sugar beets and alfalfa once holding sway. While the grander ambitions of irrigation projects may have faded, the spirit of perseverance remains, evident in the small farms that still cling to the land, their fields a patchwork of determined green against the prevailing tan. The town itself, a collection of weathered buildings, carries the quiet dignity of a place that has seen boom and bust, a slow, steady pulse beating beneath the wide-open sky.
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| Location | Manzanola, Otero County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.109451°N, 103.866066°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81058 |
| Area Code | 970 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Manzanola, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Manzanola, 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 Manzanola includes coordinates 38.109451°N, 103.866066°W, situated in Otero County. ZIP code 81058. 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.
