Dunfermline, Illinois Weather
Dunfermline, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Dunfermline, Fulton County.
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About Dunfermline, Illinois
Dunfermline sits in the rolling landscape of Fulton County, a place where the land itself seems to breathe a slow, deliberate rhythm. It lies 21.2 miles west-south-west of Pekin, IL (from Pekin, IL: bearing 256°T), and is situated 4.6 miles south of Canton. The terrain here is a study in subtle contours, a gentle rise and fall that guides the eye across fields of corn and soybean, their greens and golds rippling under the vast, often cloud-streaked Illinois sky. Small woodlands, mostly oak and hickory, punctuate the farmland, their shadows lengthening and shortening with the sun's unhurried transit. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a clean, earthy scent, a blend of tilled soil and the distant breath of drying hay, and the quiet is broken only by the hum of an unseen tractor or the call of a crow. The history of Dunfermline is deeply entwined with the earth it rests upon, a legacy of coal mining that shaped its early growth and character. Though the deep seams have long been exhausted, the memory of those days lingers in the stoic resilience of its people and the very shape of the land, subtly altered by generations of extraction. Today, the local economy leans more on the enduring bounty of agriculture, with farms continuing to be the lifeblood of the region, their harvests feeding the nation. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions in Dunfermline, but rather a quiet dignity, a sense of place that is both grounded and enduring, a community that understands the value of hard work and the simple beauty of a well-tended field under a wide, open sky.
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| Location | Dunfermline, Fulton County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.49115°N, 90.031784°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61524 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dunfermline, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dunfermline, Illinois, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Dunfermline includes coordinates 40.491150°N, 90.031784°W, situated in Fulton County. ZIP code 61524. Telephone area code: 815. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
