Fanning Springs, Florida Weather
Fanning Springs, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Fanning Springs, Gilchrist County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fanning Springs. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fanning Springs is published on the Cross City Airport (KCTY) page, 18 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. 4 airfields within reach of Fanning Springs 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 Fanning Springs: Flying Ten Airport (K0J8) 41 km · Williston Municipal Airport (KX60) 51 km · George T Lewis Airport (KCDK) 52 km
Conditions reported at KCTY describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fanning Springs specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fanning Springs.
About Fanning Springs, Florida
Fanning Springs rests on the edge of the Suwannee River's slow, wide embrace, a place where the land dips and rises with a gentle, almost weary grace. It lies 36.5 miles west of Gainesville, FL (from Gainesville, FL: bearing 264°T), and is situated 5.4 miles north of Manatee Road. Cypress knees, thick as a man's thigh, grip the dark, silty earth along the riverbanks, their ancient roots a testament to generations of quiet persistence. The air here carries a humid sweetness, a blend of damp soil and the faint, persistent perfume of pine needles drying in the sun. Kudzu, a relentless green tide, spills over fences and climbs the skeletal remains of abandoned structures, blurring the lines between what nature reclaims and what man leaves behind. The sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, falls in broad, buttery strokes across the water, turning the slow-moving current into a shimmering, molten ribbon. The history of Fanning Springs is as much a story of water as it is of people. Once a vital stopping point along the Suwannee, its fortunes have ebbed and flowed with the river's moods and the shifting currents of the regional economy. For years, the primary industry was agriculture, the rich soil yielding crops that sustained families through lean times and prosperous ones alike. Now, that legacy is often seen in the weathered barns and the patchwork fields that still dot the landscape, though the hum of tractors is less a constant thrum and more a sporadic murmur. The natural spring itself, a clear, cool pool that gives Fanning Springs its name, remains a draw, a constant, refreshing presence that speaks of the enduring power of the earth and the simple beauty of a place that asks for little but offers much to those who take the time to look.
Live animated radar for Fanning Springs 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 | Fanning Springs, Gilchrist County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 29.590792°N, 82.929291°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 32693 |
| Area Code | 904 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fanning Springs, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fanning Springs, Florida, 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 Fanning Springs includes coordinates 29.590792°N, 82.929291°W, situated in Gilchrist County. ZIP code 32693. Telephone area code: 904. 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.
