Young Harris, Georgia Weather
Young Harris, 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 Young Harris, Towns County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Young Harris. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Young Harris is published on the Blairsville Airport (KDZJ) page, 16 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 Young Harris 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 Young Harris: Western Carolina Regional Airport (KRHP) 29 km · Lumpkin County Wimpys Airport (K9A0) 42 km · Martin Campbell Field (K1A3) 46 km · Macon County Airport (K1A5) 50 km · Habersham County Airport (KAJR) 55 km
Conditions reported at KDZJ describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Young Harris specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Young Harris.
About Young Harris, Georgia
Young Harris lies cupped in the embrace of Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, a place where the air itself seems to hum with the quiet persistence of ancient stone. It lies 43.9 miles north of Gainesville, GA (from Gainesville, GA: bearing 358°T), and is situated 5.2 miles west-south-west of Hiawassee. The slopes rise steeply, cloaked in a tapestry of hardwoods that blaze with fire in autumn and whisper secrets in the spring thaw, their peaks often wreathed in a soft, pearlescent mist that lends a dreamlike quality to the already dramatic landscape. The land here is a study in verticality, with narrow valleys carved by rushing creeks that tumble over moss-slicked rocks, their ceaseless chatter a constant, soothing counterpoint to the stillness of the higher elevations. Sunlight, when it breaks through the dense canopy, falls in luminous shafts, illuminating patches of fern and the occasional wild rhododendron, a fleeting, ephemeral beauty that seems to belong to another time. The spirit of Young Harris is deeply entwined with its agricultural past, a heritage still evident in the terraced fields that cling to the hillsides and the hardy, independent nature of its people. For generations, this was a land shaped by the plow and the seasons, where the local economy was dictated by the bounty of the soil and the timber that clothed the mountains. Today, while agriculture and forestry still hold their place, the region has found new life in education and tourism, drawn by the very same wild, untamed beauty that first drew settlers here. The presence of Young Harris College, a beacon of learning perched with thoughtful grace upon a rise, adds a vibrant intellectual current to the enduring, earthy pulse of the community, a place where the echoes of history mingle with the promise of the future.
Live animated radar for Young Harris 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 | Young Harris, Towns County, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 34.933145°N, 83.847122°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 30582 |
| Area Code | 770, 678 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Young Harris, Georgia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Young Harris, 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 Young Harris includes coordinates 34.933145°N, 83.847122°W, situated in Towns County. ZIP code 30582. 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.
