Gateway, Florida Weather
Gateway, 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 Gateway, Hills County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Gateway. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Gateway is published on the Tampa Executive Airport (KVDF) page, 10 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 Gateway 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 Gateway: Tampa International Airport (KTPA) 10 km · Peter O Knight Airport (KTPF) 13 km · MacDill Air Force Base (KMCF) 22 km · St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (KPIE) 27 km · Plant City Municipal Airport (KPCM) 28 km
Conditions reported at KVDF describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Gateway specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Gateway.
About Gateway, Florida
Gateway unfolds across a gentle, rolling terrain, where the Florida sun, even on a cloudy day, casts a diffused, pearly light. It lies 2.9 miles east-south-east of Carrollwood, FL (from Carrollwood, FL: bearing 113°T), and is situated 6.0 miles north of Tampa. The landscape is a subtle patchwork of manicured lawns and wilder stretches of scrub brush and pine, hinting at the untamed beauty just beyond the edges of civilization. Live oaks, ancient and gnarled, stand as stoic sentinels, their Spanish moss trailing like spectral beards in the humid air. The dominant color palette is a soothing blend of earthy greens, the pale ochre of sandy soil, and the ever-present, luminous blue of the sky, which seems to stretch on forever above the low-slung horizon. Even the breeze carries a faint, sweet perfume, a mingling of sun-baked pine needles and the distant, almost imperceptible scent of salt from the Gulf. This land, once home to indigenous peoples who understood its rhythms intimately, was later shaped by the aspirations of settlers drawn by the fertile soil and the promise of opportunity. The local economy, though diversified now, still bears the imprint of its agricultural past, with citrus groves and cattle ranches dotting the periphery, their produce contributing to the quiet hum of commerce. Gateway itself is a place where time seems to move with a slightly different cadence, a conscious choice perhaps, to savor the day rather than rush through it. The main thoroughfares, while busy enough to feel alive, lack the frenetic urgency of larger metropolises, allowing for moments of quiet observation, like watching the way the late afternoon sun catches the dust motes dancing in the air above a quiet street.
Live animated radar for Gateway 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 | Gateway, Hills County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 28.0341°N, 82.4496°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 33612, 33913 |
| Area Code | 407, 321, 561 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Gateway, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gateway, 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 Gateway includes coordinates 28.034100°N, 82.449600°W, situated in Hills County. ZIP code 33612, 33913. Telephone area code: 407, 321, 561. 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.
