Fountain, Florida Weather
Fountain, 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 Fountain, Bay County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fountain. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fountain is published on the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (KECP) page, 38 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 Fountain 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 Fountain: Tri-County Airport (KBCR) 44 km · Marianna Municipal Airport (KMAI) 46 km · Tyndall Air Force Base (KPAM) 48 km
Conditions reported at KECP describe the airfield itself. Weather 38 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fountain specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fountain.
About Fountain, Florida
Fountain, Florida, exhales the humid breath of the Panhandle, a place where the land seems to sigh under the weight of its own verdant growth. It lies 26.4 miles north-north-east of Panama City, FL (from Panama City, FL: bearing 33°T), and is situated 8.0 miles north of Youngstown. The terrain here is a gentle depression, a languid sweep of pine forests and palmetto scrub that gives way to the slow, dark waters of the Apalachicola River basin not far to the east. Sunlight, when it breaks through the dense canopy, falls in shifting mosaics on the sandy soil, illuminating the rust-colored needles of the longleaf pines and the waxy sheen of magnolia leaves. The air itself carries a perpetual dampness, a subtle perfume of decaying leaves and the faintest, salt-tinged whisper from the distant Gulf, a constant reminder of the coast’s proximity. Even the wind seems to move with a certain deliberation, rustling through the undergrowth with a sound like dry paper being shuffled. The history of Fountain is a quiet one, etched not in grand monuments but in the slow turning of seasons and the enduring spirit of its people. Once a hub for timber and agriculture, the economy still carries echoes of those eras, with small farms and agribusiness dotting the surrounding landscape, though the pervasive scent of pine resin hints at a lingering connection to the forest. The land itself, low-lying and fertile, has always dictated the pace of life, fostering a sense of patient endurance rather than hurried progress. There are no towering structures to mark its passage, but rather the weathered facades of older buildings, the quiet hum of pickup trucks on county roads, and the occasional, almost imperceptible, shift in the way the light falls across the fields as dusk begins to gather, painting the sky in hues of bruised plum and fading gold.
Live animated radar for Fountain 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 | Fountain, Bay County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 30.478805°N, 85.419648°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 32438 |
| Area Code | 850 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fountain, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fountain, 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 Fountain includes coordinates 30.478805°N, 85.419648°W, situated in Bay County. ZIP code 32438. Telephone area code: 850. 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.
