Blue Hills, Connecticut — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Blue Hills, Hartford County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Blue Hills. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Blue Hills is published on the Hartford Brainard Airport (KHFD) page, 9 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. 6 airfields within reach of Blue Hills 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 Blue Hills: Bradley International Airport (KBDL) 14 km · Skylark Airpark (K7B6) 16 km · Robertson Field (K4B8) 19 km · Ellington Airport (K7B9) 24 km · Meriden Markham Municipal Airport (KMMK) 36 km
Conditions reported at KHFD describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Blue Hills specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Blue Hills rises from the Connecticut landscape with a quiet dignity, its terrain a gentle swell of wooded hills that catch the afternoon sun like a benevolent hand. It lies 3.5 miles north of Hartford, CT (from Hartford, CT: bearing 349°T), and is situated 4.2 miles north-north-east of West Hartford. Rolling slopes, cloaked in a mature forest of oak and maple, create a sense of secluded embrace, the air often carrying the clean, damp scent of loam and decaying leaves, especially after a rain. Here, the land isn't dramatic, but rather possesses a soft, persistent beauty; the streams that thread through its valleys murmur with a constant, low song, their waters clear and cool, reflecting the dappled light that filters through the canopy. The houses, often set back from the winding roads, seem to settle into their surroundings, their architecture echoing the unpretentious character of the place. The history of Blue Hills is a story of adaptation and quiet persistence, mirroring the land itself. Once a region dotted with small farms and orchards, its economy has gracefully shifted, embracing a more diversified character that includes light manufacturing and a growing service sector. The legacy of its agricultural past can still be glimpsed in the occasional stone wall, a patient sentinel against the encroaching woods, and in the enduring community spirit that values neighborliness. While no single grand monument defines Blue Hills, its true distinction lies in its sustained ability to offer a sense of grounded peace, a place where the passage of seasons dictates a natural rhythm, and where the evenings often bring a profound stillness, broken only by the distant call of an owl or the faint hum of a passing car.
Live animated radar for Blue Hills 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 | Blue Hills, Hartford County, Connecticut |
| Coordinates | 41.812877°N, 72.697593°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 06002 |
| Area Code | 203, 475, 860, 959 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blue Hills, Connecticut, 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 Blue Hills includes coordinates 41.812877°N, 72.697593°W, situated in Hartford County. ZIP code 06002. Telephone area code: 203, 475, 860, 959. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.