Forest City, Illinois Weather
Forest City, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Forest City, Mason County.
Full aviation weather for Forest City is published on the Pekin Municipal Airport (KC15) 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 Forest City 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 Forest City: Havana Regional Airport (K9I0) 23 km · Ingersoll Airport (KCTK) 30 km · General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (KPIA) 35 km · Logan County Airport (KAAA) 48 km · Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (K3MY) 51 km
Conditions reported at KC15 describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Forest City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Forest City.
About Forest City, Illinois
Forest City lies low in the heart of Mason County, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with a quiet, steady exhalation. It lies 16.8 miles south-west of Pekin, IL (from Pekin, IL: bearing 216°T), and is situated 4.6 miles south-south-west of Manito. The terrain here is a gentle suggestion of rise and fall, a subtle rolling that hints at the larger agricultural plains beyond, yet is softened by the presence of scattered woodlands. These woods, though not a dense, impenetrable forest, break the horizon with their varied greens, offering a welcome shade in the summer sun and a stark, skeletal beauty under a winter sky. The air, especially in the early morning or late afternoon, carries the clean scent of turned earth and the faintest whisper of pine, a subtle perfume that clings to the place. The sky above Forest City is vast, an expansive canvas where clouds drift with a deliberate, unhurried grace. The history of Forest City is tied to the rich soil that surrounds it, a fertile ground that has long sustained its inhabitants. This has been a place of farming, of crops growing under the wide Illinois sky, and the economy has always reflected that deep connection to the land. The community has seen generations of families work the fields, their lives measured by the planting and harvesting seasons. While there are no grand monuments or bustling industries to draw the eye, Forest City possesses a quiet character, a groundedness that comes from a long, steady existence. The notable feature here is perhaps the absence of ostentation; life unfolds at a pace that allows for the appreciation of small things – the way the light catches the dew on a spider's web in the morning, or the distant rumble of a tractor on a quiet afternoon.
Live animated radar for Forest City 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 | Forest City, Mason County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.370041°N, 89.827611°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61532, 61567 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Forest City, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Forest City, 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 Forest City includes coordinates 40.370041°N, 89.827611°W, situated in Mason County. ZIP code 61532, 61567. 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. 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.
