Boles, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Boles, Franklin County.
Flight conditions near Boles — sourced from the FAA Aviation Weather Center. Nearest reporting station: locating…
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Boles.
Live animated radar for Boles 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
Boles rests in a landscape shaped by the gentle roll of southern Illinois, where the earth hums with a quiet persistence. It lies 31.3 miles east-north-east of Cape Girardeau, MO (from Cape Girardeau, MO: bearing 74°T), and is situated 4.0 miles west-north-west of Vienna. The fields here are a patchwork quilt of muted greens and browns, stitched together by tree lines that trace the contours of the land. In the summer, the air hangs thick and humid, carrying the scent of sun-baked earth and ripening corn, while the evenings are painted with a soft, diffused light that seems to linger, as if reluctant to surrender to the night. Small woodlands, dense with oak and hickory, punctuate the open spaces, offering cool, shadowed refuge. The history of Boles is intertwined with the rich, dark soil that has sustained generations, a legacy born from the land's bounty and the enduring spirit of its people. For decades, the rhythm of life here was dictated by the harvests and the quiet hum of agricultural enterprise, with family farms dotting the landscape, their weathered barns standing as silent sentinels. While the echoes of earlier, more industrious eras might still whisper on the wind, the present character of Boles is one of quiet resilience, a place where the pace is measured by the turning of the seasons and the simple, honest work that connects its inhabitants to the earth.
| Location | Boles, Franklin County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 37.428653°N, 88.969327°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62909, 62818 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |