Gurnee, Illinois Weather
Gurnee, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Gurnee, Lake County.
Full aviation weather for Gurnee is published on the Waukegan National Airport (KUGN) page, 6 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 Gurnee 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 Gurnee: Campbell Airport (KC81) 15 km · Kenosha Regional Airport (KENW) 25 km · Camp Lake Airport (K49C) 27 km · Chicago Executive Airport (KPWK) 28 km · Sylvania Airport (KC89) 37 km
Conditions reported at KUGN describe the airfield itself. Weather 6 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Gurnee specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Gurnee, Illinois
Gurnee unfolds across a landscape shaped by the gentle sweep of glacial topography, where broad, low hills rise and fall like softly exhaled breaths on the horizon. It lies 3.0 miles west of Waukegan, IL (from Waukegan, IL: bearing 279°T), and is situated 9.6 miles east of Round Lake Beach. The land here, a quilt of cultivated fields and nascent woodlands, often catches the sun in a way that softens its edges, turning the ordinary into something luminous, especially as the day deepens. The air, carrying the scent of damp earth and distant pine, hums with a quiet energy, a subtle current that runs beneath the steady hum of traffic and the occasional laughter drifting from a park. Open skies dominate, vast canvases where clouds drift like forgotten thoughts, and the land stretches out, an invitation to breathe deep and feel the pulse of the Midwest. The story of Gurnee is woven with the threads of agriculture and industry, a place that has always looked to the earth and the river for its sustenance. The Des Plaines River, a ribbon of life, has long dictated the flow of settlement and commerce, its banks bearing witness to generations who tilled the fertile soil and harnessed its power. While the echoes of its farming past are still felt in the broad fields that surround it, Gurnee has also embraced a more modern dynamism, becoming a hub for retail and entertainment that draws people from far and wide. This duality, the enduring connection to the land and the embrace of contemporary life, gives Gurnee its distinctive character, a place where the quiet beauty of nature and the vibrant pulse of progress coexist.
Live animated radar for Gurnee 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 | Gurnee, Lake County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 42.3703°N, 87.902019°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 60031 |
| Area Code | 312, 773 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Gurnee, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gurnee, 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 Gurnee includes coordinates 42.370300°N, 87.902019°W, situated in Lake County. ZIP code 60031. Telephone area code: 312, 773. 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.
