Cairo, Illinois Weather
Cairo, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cairo, Alexander County.
Full aviation weather for Cairo is published on the Cairo Regional Airport (KCIR) page, 8 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 Cairo 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 Cairo: Mississippi County Airport (KCHQ) 24 km · Sikeston Memorial Municipal Airport (KSIK) 36 km · Barkley Regional Airport (KPAH) 36 km · Metropolis Municipal Airport (KM30) 43 km · Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (KCGI) 43 km
Conditions reported at KCIR describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cairo specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cairo.
About Cairo, Illinois
Cairo, Illinois, sprawls at the confluence where the mighty Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet, a land shaped by the ceaseless currents and the rich, alluvial soil that stretches toward horizons often softened by a hazy humidity. It lies 28.0 miles south-east of Cape Girardeau, MO (from Cape Girardeau, MO: bearing 138°T), and is situated 7.6 miles south of Mounds. The landscape here is a broad, flat expanse, punctuated by the occasional stand of cypress trees whose roots grip the earth like ancient hands, and the vast, open sky that seems to hold the very breath of the Midwest. During the long, languid afternoons, the light can take on a peculiar golden hue, as if filtered through a thousand years of river mist, lending a quiet majesty to the otherwise unassuming terrain. The air, especially when the wind shifts from the water, carries the faint, earthy scent of damp soil and distant agriculture, a constant reminder of the fertile land that defines Cairo. This southernmost tip of Illinois carries a deep history, once a bustling hub of steamboat traffic and a strategic point for commerce before the railroads reshaped the nation's arteries. Founded with grand ambitions of becoming a major metropolis, Cairo's fortunes have ebbed and flowed with the rivers and the shifting economic tides, its past echoing in the weathered facades of its older buildings and the quiet dignity of its residents. Today, the local economy still whispers of its riverine heritage, with a reliance on agriculture and the continuing, albeit diminished, importance of river transport, a legacy that can be felt in the unhurried pace of daily life. The confluence itself remains a powerful, almost spiritual, landmark, a place where the sheer force of nature commands respect and a sense of timelessness settles over the land.
Live animated radar for Cairo 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 | Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 37.005329°N, 89.176461°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62914 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cairo, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cairo, Illinois, 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 Cairo includes coordinates 37.005329°N, 89.176461°W, situated in Alexander County. ZIP code 62914. Telephone area code: 618. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
