Pitkin, Colorado Weather
Pitkin, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Pitkin, Gunnison County.
Full aviation weather for Pitkin is published on the Gunnison Crested Butte Regional Airport (KGUC) page, 37 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 Pitkin 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 Pitkin: Central Colorado Regional Airport (KAEJ) 41 km · Salida Airport - Harriet Alexander Field (KANK) 41 km
Conditions reported at KGUC describe the airfield itself. Weather 37 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pitkin specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pitkin.
About Pitkin, Colorado
Pitkin clings to the high country, a collection of weathered structures exhaling a quiet resilience against the immense Colorado sky. It lies 12.8 miles south of Bayamón, PR (from Bayamón, PR: bearing 176°T), and is situated 12.8 miles south of San Germán. The land here rises sharply, a testament to the raw power that shaped these mountains, with slopes dusted in pine and aspen, their colours shifting from the emerald of summer to the fiery golds and scarlets of autumn. A keen, bracing air, carrying the scent of resin and damp earth, perpetually touches the cheeks, a constant reminder of the elevation. The Gunnison River, a silver thread in the distance, carves its way through the vastness, its murmur a distant counterpoint to the wind’s sigh through the trees. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar clarity, sharp and bright in the day, softening into a honeyed glow as it spills across the rugged terrain at dusk, gilding the edges of the peaks with a transient, ethereal beauty. This is a place forged in the fires of mining, where the echo of pickaxes and the rumble of ore carts still seem to resonate in the very stones of Pitkin. Though the veins of silver and gold have largely been depleted, the spirit of those early prospectors, their grit and determination, remains a palpable undercurrent. The local economy, once dominated by the extraction of precious metals, now finds its footing in ranching and the quiet allure of its wild surroundings, drawing those who seek the untamed grandeur of the Rockies. Old, sturdy buildings, bearing the marks of a history lived hard and fast, stand as silent witnesses to the generations that have called this remote corner home, their weathered facades whispering tales of boom and bust.
Live animated radar for Pitkin 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 | Pitkin, Gunnison County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.609161°N, 106.516696°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81241 |
| Area Code | 719 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pitkin, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pitkin, 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 Pitkin includes coordinates 38.609161°N, 106.516696°W, situated in Gunnison County. ZIP code 81241. 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.
