El Dara, Illinois Weather
El Dara, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for El Dara, Pike County.
Full aviation weather for El Dara is published on the Pittsfield Penstone Municipal Airport (KPPQ) page, 18 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 El Dara 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 El Dara: Bowling Green Municipal Airport (KH19) 34 km · Quincy Regional Airport Baldwin Field (KUIN) 40 km · Hannibal Regional Airport (KHAE) 40 km · Mount Sterling Municipal Airport (KI63) 44 km · Rueter Airfield (K93M) 57 km
Conditions reported at KPPQ describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at El Dara specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for El Dara.
About El Dara, Illinois
El Dara sleeps under a wide Illinois sky, a quiet collection of buildings breathing the slow, steady rhythm of the land. It lies 31.0 miles south-east of Quincy, IL (from Quincy, IL: bearing 134°T), and is situated 10.0 miles west of Pittsfield. The terrain here is a gentle rolling of fertile earth, the kind that cradles fields of corn and soybeans reaching towards horizons softened by distance. Trees, mostly oak and maple, cluster in patches, their leaves a vibrant green in the summer and a blazing farewell in autumn, casting long, dramatic shadows as the sun dips low. The air itself often carries the sweet, earthy scent of tilled soil and the distant hum of agricultural machinery, a constant reminder of the lifeblood that flows through El Dara. This small corner of Pike County has a history rooted deep in the soil, its economy long tied to the bounty of the surrounding farms. The land was settled by sturdy folk who understood the cycles of planting and harvest, and that legacy endures in the quiet industry of El Dara. While no grand monuments mark its past, the very character of the place speaks of generations who have worked this ground, their lives interwoven with the seasons. It’s a place where the local general store might still be a hub of gossip and necessities, a small, enduring testament to a simpler, more connected way of life that persists against the rush of the modern world.
Live animated radar for El Dara 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 | El Dara, Pike County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.622547°N, 90.991801°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62312 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This El Dara, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for El Dara, 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 El Dara includes coordinates 39.622547°N, 90.991801°W, situated in Pike County. ZIP code 62312. 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.
