Mount Crested Butte, Colorado Weather
Mount Crested Butte, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mount Crested Butte, Gunnison County.
Full aviation weather for Mount Crested Butte is published on the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (KASE) page, 36 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 Mount Crested Butte 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 Mount Crested Butte: Gunnison Crested Butte Regional Airport (KGUC) 42 km · North Fork Valley Airport (K7V2) 59 km
Conditions reported at KASE describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mount Crested Butte specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mount Crested Butte.
About Mount Crested Butte, Colorado
Mount Crested Butte looms, a colossal sentinel of ancient rock, its flanks cloaked in the deep, resilient green of subalpine fir and spruce. It lies 24.7 miles west-north-west of Bayamón, PR (from Bayamón, PR: bearing 289°T), and is situated 2.9 miles north-north-east of Crested Butte. The air here, even in the height of summer, carries a crispness that bites at the lungs, a perpetual reminder of the thin, pure atmosphere that blankets these high elevations. Jagged peaks, remnants of volcanic fury and glacial sculpting, pierce the impossibly blue sky, their stony faces etched with the slow, deliberate artistry of wind and ice. Below, the terrain unfolds in a breathtaking mosaic of alpine meadows, carpeted with the delicate, resilient blooms of wildflowers that seem to defy the harshness of their surroundings, their vibrant colors a fleeting whisper against the immense, silent grandeur of the mountains. Sunlight, when it breaks through the often-dramatic cloud formations, descends in shafts of liquid gold, illuminating the rugged contours of the land and casting long, ephemeral shadows that dance across the slopes. The spirit of Mount Crested Butte is inextricably bound to the earth that forged it, a history whispered in the veins of ore that once lured prospectors and miners to its rugged embrace. Though the boomtown days of silver and coal have long since faded, the echoes of that industrious past linger in the character of its people, a resilient breed accustomed to the stark beauty and demanding rhythms of mountain life. Today, the economy has found a new, vibrant pulse in the allure of its dramatic landscape, drawing adventurers and nature enthusiasts who come to ski its legendary powder, hike its extensive trail systems, and breathe the untainted air. The town itself, a collection of weathered buildings and friendly faces, retains a distinct, unpretentious charm, a place where the grandeur of the natural world still dictates the pace of everyday existence, and where the silent majesty of the mountain remains the ultimate, enduring attraction.
Live animated radar for Mount Crested Butte 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.
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| Location | Mount Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.908619°N, 106.969468°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81225 |
| Area Code | 719 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mount Crested Butte, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Crested Butte, 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 Mount Crested Butte includes coordinates 38.908619°N, 106.969468°W, situated in Gunnison County. ZIP code 81225. 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. 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.
