Oak Park, Georgia Weather
Oak Park, 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 Oak Park, Walker County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Oak Park. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Oak Park is published on the Barwick Lafayette Airport (K9A5) page, 3 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 Oak Park 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 Oak Park: Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) (KCHA) 37 km · Dalton Municipal Airport (KDNN) 37 km · Richard B Russell Airport (KRMG) 41 km · Tom B. David Field (KCZL) 42 km · Collegedale Municipal Airport (KFGU) 44 km
Conditions reported at K9A5 describe the airfield itself. Weather 3 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Oak Park specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Oak Park.
About Oak Park, Georgia
Oak Park wears its Appalachian foothills setting with a quiet, unassuming grace. It lies 17.8 miles west-south-west of Dalton, GA (from Dalton, GA: bearing 256°T), and is situated 0.5 miles north-east of LaFayette. The land here rolls, not in dramatic peaks but in a series of gentle swells and dips, cloaked in a rich, variegated green that shifts with the seasons. Ancient oaks, their branches gnarled like the arthritic fingers of old men, stand sentinel over fields that have seen generations of cultivation. The air, particularly in the hush of late afternoon, carries the faint, sweet scent of pine and damp earth, a perfume that clings to the skin and whispers of the surrounding forests. Small streams, their beds lined with smooth, grey stones, thread through the landscape, their murmur a constant, low-grade soundtrack to the lives lived in Oak Park. The history of Oak Park is inextricably tied to the land and its resources, an economy built first on timber harvested from the dense woods that ring the settlement. Later, the discovery of veins of coal nearby brought a different kind of industry, a grittier prosperity that infused the community with a hardy, pragmatic spirit. While the coal seams have long since been played out, remnants of that era can still be found in the stoic, weathered faces of some of the older buildings and in the generational pride of families who worked the mines. Today, the economy of Oak Park leans more towards agriculture, with small farms producing a variety of crops, and a growing number of residents commuting to larger centers for work, bringing a slow, steady pulse to the everyday rhythm of life.
Live animated radar for Oak Park 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 | Oak Park, Walker County, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 34.708969°N, 85.2744°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 30436, 31533, 30728, 30471 |
| Area Code | 770, 678 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Oak Park, Georgia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Oak Park, 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 Oak Park includes coordinates 34.708969°N, 85.274400°W, situated in Walker County. ZIP code 30436, 31533, 30728, 30471. Telephone area code: 770, 678. 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.
