Helena, Georgia Weather
Helena, Georgia — 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 Helena, Telfair County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Helena. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Helena is published on the Telfair Wheeler Airport (KMQW) page, 4 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. 3 airfields within reach of Helena 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 Helena: Vidalia Regional Airport (KVDI) 53 km · W H 'Bud' Barron Airport (KDBN) 55 km
Conditions reported at KMQW describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Helena specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Helena.
About Helena, Georgia
Helena breathes the humid, sun-drenched air of South Georgia, a place where the land rolls gently, a soft green velvet under the vast, often startlingly blue sky. It lies 55.0 miles south-east of Warner Robins, GA (from Warner Robins, GA: bearing 133°T), and is situated 1.3 miles north-west of McRae-Helena. The landscape here is a quiet composition of pine forests, their needles whispering secrets on the breeze, interspersed with fields that, depending on the season, might shimmer with the golden promise of corn or the pale green of ripening cotton. Ditches, often lined with tenacious wildflowers, trace the edges of roads that seem to invite leisurely meandering, and the air itself carries the faint, earthy scent of damp soil and distant woodsmoke, a perfume of the rural South. The character of Helena is one of unpretentious calm, a place where the rustle of leaves and the distant bark of a dog punctuate the otherwise peaceful silence. The history of Helena is subtly etched into its very being, a story woven from the threads of agriculture and a resilient spirit that has weathered changing times. For generations, the fertile land surrounding Helena has been the bedrock of its economy, yielding crops that have sustained families and shaped the local identity. While the days of large plantations have long since passed, the legacy of farming persists, evident in the silos that punctuate the horizon and the occasional tractor trundling down a country lane. The presence of the Ocmulgee River, though not directly adjacent to Helena itself, has historically influenced the region’s development, its waters a lifeline for commerce and sustenance, and the land still bears the imprint of those who worked it, a quiet testament to their enduring connection to this particular corner of Georgia.
Live animated radar for Helena 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 | Helena, Telfair County, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 32.073787°N, 82.914588°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 31037 |
| Area Code | 912 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Helena, Georgia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Helena, Georgia, 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 Helena includes coordinates 32.073787°N, 82.914588°W, situated in Telfair County. ZIP code 31037. Telephone area code: 912. 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.
