Manatee Road, Florida Weather
Manatee Road, 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 Manatee Road, Levy County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Manatee Road. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Manatee Road is published on the Cross City Airport (KCTY) page, 23 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 Manatee Road 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 Manatee Road: Flying Ten Airport (K0J8) 41 km · George T Lewis Airport (KCDK) 44 km · Williston Municipal Airport (KX60) 46 km
Conditions reported at KCTY describe the airfield itself. Weather 23 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Manatee Road specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Manatee Road.
About Manatee Road, Florida
Manatee Road unfurls through a landscape that breathes the humid, languid air of Florida's Nature Coast. It lies 36.7 miles west-south-west of Gainesville, FL (from Gainesville, FL: bearing 255°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south-west of Trenton. This stretch of highway cuts through low-lying pine flatwoods, their needles forming a soft, fragrant carpet under the vast, pale sky, punctuated by the occasional cypress swamp where gnarled knees emerge from still, dark water. The light here, especially in the late afternoon, takes on a honeyed quality, filtering through the dense canopy of live oaks draped with Spanish moss that hangs like forgotten lace. The terrain is mostly flat, a subtle, almost imperceptible slope towards the Gulf, and the character of Manatee Road is defined by this gentle, unhurried expanse, where the rustle of palmettos and the distant cry of a hawk are the dominant sounds. The history of Manatee Road is inextricably linked to the rich, dark soil that has long supported agriculture, particularly citrus groves that once flourished before the devastating freezes of the late 20th century. Though the groves have largely receded, replaced by scattered residential developments and stands of young pine, the legacy of that agrarian past lingers in the occasional weathered barn and the enduring connection to the land. Today, the local economy of Manatee Road and its environs leans heavily on the bounty of the nearby Gulf waters, with fishing charters and seafood processing playing a significant role, while the proximity to state parks and natural springs draws tourists seeking a quieter, more authentic Florida experience. This locality, though not overtly marked by grand monuments, holds a quiet distinction in its understated beauty and the palpable sense of time moving at a different, more deliberate pace.
Live animated radar for Manatee Road 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 | Manatee Road, Levy County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 29.513016°N, 82.914289°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 32626 |
| Area Code | 904 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Manatee Road, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Manatee Road, 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 Manatee Road includes coordinates 29.513016°N, 82.914289°W, situated in Levy County. ZIP code 32626. 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.
