Orchard Hill, 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 Orchard Hill, Spalding County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Orchard Hill. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Orchard Hill is published on the Griffin Spalding County Airport (K6A2) page, 7 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. 5 airfields within reach of Orchard Hill 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 Orchard Hill: Atlanta Speedway Airport (KHMP) 25 km · Peachtree City Falcon Field (KFFC) 38 km · Newnan Coweta County Airport (KCCO) 54 km · Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (KATL) 54 km
Conditions reported at K6A2 describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Orchard Hill specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Orchard Hill.
Orchard Hill spreads its gentle slopes across the Georgia piedmont, a landscape painted in muted greens and earthy browns. It lies 18.4 miles south-south-west of McDonough, GA (from McDonough, GA: bearing 192°T), and is situated 5.2 miles south-east of Griffin. The land rises and falls with a quiet dignity, not dramatic, but substantial, like the slow breath of something ancient. Oak and pine trees, their branches reaching towards a sky that often holds a bruised, tender quality at twilight, punctuate the fields. Here, the air carries the faint, sweet perfume of pine needles warmed by the sun, a subtle fragrance that clings to the skin and clothes. The roads, worn smooth by decades of passage, curve with an unhurried grace, leading the eye towards distant, hazy horizons where the land seems to melt into the sky. This corner of Spalding County, Georgia, remembers a time when the soil itself was the primary currency, yielding cotton and later, peaches that gave the region its name. The echoes of agricultural labor are still present, not in grand monuments, but in the weathered barns and the patient, enduring spirit of the people. While large-scale farming has shifted, a quiet resilience remains, with some residents still tending small orchards or cultivating the rich, red earth. The local economy, like the landscape, has adapted, finding new rhythms in the present, yet the history of its agrarian past is a subtle undercurrent, a grounding force that shapes the character of Orchard Hill.
Live animated radar for Orchard Hill 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.
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| Location | Orchard Hill, Spalding County, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 33.186507°N, 84.21131°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 30224, 30266 |
| Area Code | 404, 470, 678 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Orchard Hill, 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 Orchard Hill includes coordinates 33.186507°N, 84.211310°W, situated in Spalding County. ZIP code 30224, 30266. Telephone area code: 404, 470, 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.