Cutler, Illinois Weather
Cutler, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cutler, Perry County.
Full aviation weather for Cutler is published on the Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field (KSAR) page, 17 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 Cutler 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 Cutler: Pinckneyville Du Quoin Airport (KPJY) 19 km · Perryville Regional Airport (KPCD) 32 km · Southern Illinois Airport (KMDH) 39 km · Benton Municipal Airport (KH96) 55 km · Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (KMWA) 57 km
Conditions reported at KSAR describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cutler specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cutler.
About Cutler, Illinois
Cutler rests within Perry County, a quiet constellation of homes and businesses where Illinois’s rolling terrain begins to soften its contours before the broader prairie. It lies 40.6 miles south-east of Belleville, IL (from Belleville, IL: bearing 146°T), and is situated 9.7 miles south-east of Sparta. The land here, a patchwork of cultivated fields and wooded draws, breathes the slow exhalation of summer heat, the air thick with the scent of drying corn stalks and distant woodsmoke. Sunlight, when it breaks through the humid haze, possesses a buttery quality, lending a gentle luminescence to the weathered clapboard of the houses and the stoic faces of the silos that punctuate the horizon. The occasional truck rumbles down the main thoroughfare, its passing a momentary disruption in the pervasive stillness, a reminder of the life that flows, albeit at a measured pace, through this corner of Southern Illinois. The history of Cutler is written in the very grain of its modest buildings and the enduring agricultural pursuits that define its economy. Once, perhaps, the hum of a more bustling industry echoed here, but now the rhythm of life is largely dictated by the seasons and the needs of the land. Local farmers, their hands calloused by generations of toil, work the rich bottomlands and gentle slopes, their livelihoods bound to the corn and soybeans that stretch to the horizon. There are no grand monuments or famous sons to draw the eye, yet a distinct character persists, a quiet resilience forged in the shared experience of a close-knit community. The absence of overt spectacle allows for a deeper appreciation of the subtle beauties: the way the evening light catches the dust motes dancing in a roadside diner, or the low, contented murmur of voices drifting from a porch swing on a warm evening, weaving the present into the quiet fabric of Cutler.
Live animated radar for Cutler 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 | Cutler, Perry County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 38.032273°N, 89.565651°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62238 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cutler, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cutler, 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 Cutler includes coordinates 38.032273°N, 89.565651°W, situated in Perry County. ZIP code 62238. Telephone area code: 217. 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.
