Stanley, Idaho Weather
Stanley, Idaho — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Stanley, Custer County.
Full aviation weather for Stanley is published on the Warm Springs Creek Airport (K0U1) page, 31 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 Stanley 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 Stanley: Smiley Creek Airport (KU87) 36 km · Bruce Meadows Airport (KU63) 37 km · Mahoney Creek USFS Airport (K0U3) 59 km
Conditions reported at K0U1 describe the airfield itself. Weather 31 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Stanley specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Stanley.
About Stanley, Idaho
Stanley is a place that feels both ancient and freshly minted by the wind. It lies 75.5 miles north-east of Boise, ID (from Boise, ID: bearing 56°T), and is situated 46.8 miles north-west of Ketchum. The jagged peaks of the Sawtooth Mountains, their granite faces catching the sun like a shattered mirror, rise abruptly from a valley floor carpeted in sagebrush and lodgepole pine. The Salmon River, a ribbon of glacial blue, winds its way through this dramatic landscape, its murmur a constant, low hum beneath the vast Idaho sky. Here, the air itself seems to possess a crispness, a clarity that sharpens the edges of the world and lends a particular keenness to the light, especially as dusk begins to bleed across the western horizon, painting the high country in hues of rose and amethyst. The very ground underfoot speaks of resilience, of a land shaped by forces far greater than human hands. This remote outpost of Stanley carries the echoes of its past within its present. Once a vital hub for the mining industry, its fortunes, like so many mountain towns, waxed and waned with the precious metals pulled from the earth. Today, the economy of Stanley is more attuned to the rhythm of the seasons and the allure of its wild surroundings, drawing adventurers drawn to world-class fly-fishing on the Salmon, hikers exploring alpine lakes, and skiers who find solace in the deep snows of winter. The town itself retains a rustic charm, a collection of weathered buildings that seem to hunker down against the elements, their windows reflecting the immense, silent grandeur of the mountains that are Stanley's constant, formidable neighbors.
Live animated radar for Stanley 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 | Stanley, Custer County, Idaho |
| Coordinates | 44.217423°N, 114.938582°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Boise) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 83278 |
| Area Code | 208 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Stanley, Idaho Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Stanley, Idaho, 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 Stanley includes coordinates 44.217423°N, 114.938582°W, situated in Custer County. ZIP code 83278. Telephone area code: 208. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Boise).
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.
