La Crosse, Florida Weather
La Crosse, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for La Crosse, Alachua County.
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About La Crosse, Florida
La Crosse lies nestled in a landscape defined by the slow, persistent sculpting of water and time. It lies 14.1 miles north-north-west of Gainesville, FL (from Gainesville, FL: bearing 340°T), and is situated 6.4 miles north of Alachua. Here, the land, a rich, dark loam, exhales a humid, earthy breath, particularly after a summer shower, and the sky often hangs in a soft, bruised gray before the sun breaks through in shimmering shafts. Rolling pine flatwoods give way to the more open, sandy terrain closer to the waterways, where the scrub oaks and palmettos form a resilient, low-slung vegetation, a testament to the sandy soil and the long, warm seasons. The air itself feels thick, carrying the scent of pine needles and the distant, faint perfume of blooming wildflowers, a constant reminder of the wildness that still presses in at the edges of the developed areas. The history of La Crosse is inextricably linked to the fertile land and the waterways that have always been its arteries of life. For generations, agriculture has been the bedrock of its economy, with fields of peanuts and cotton once stretching across the horizon, now often interspersed with groves of citrus and the more recent proliferation of blueberry farms. This agricultural heritage lends a certain unhurried rhythm to life here, a sense of continuity that can be felt in the weathered barns and the quiet dignity of the older homes. While the echoes of its agricultural past remain strong, the local economy has diversified, with small businesses and services catering to the needs of the surrounding rural communities. There is a distinctive character to La Crosse, a quiet resilience born from its relationship with the land and its enduring connection to the cycles of nature.
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| Location | La Crosse, Alachua County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 29.843298°N, 82.404833°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 32653, 32658, 32609 |
| Area Code | 904 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This La Crosse, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for La Crosse, Florida, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 La Crosse includes coordinates 29.843298°N, 82.404833°W, situated in Alachua County. ZIP code 32653, 32658, 32609. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
