Longview, Illinois Weather
Longview, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Longview, Champaign County.
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About Longview, Illinois
Longview unfolds across the flat, fertile expanse of Champaign County, a place where the horizon stretches out like an unwritten page under a vast Illinois sky. It lies 17.2 miles south-south-east of Urbana, IL (from Urbana, IL: bearing 154°T), and is situated 5.3 miles east-north-east of Villa Grove. The land here is a deep, rich loam, the color of dark chocolate after a spring rain, the kind that promises abundance and yields it readily. Fields of corn and soybeans, in their ordered ranks, march towards the distant tree lines that mark the boundaries of property and the occasional creek bed, their greens and golds shifting with the sun’s slow arc. The air, especially in the early morning or late afternoon, carries a clean, earthy scent, a subtle perfume of turned soil and growing things, broken only by the distant rumble of a tractor or the sharp, clear call of a meadowlark. The story of Longview is written in the grain of the land and the quiet persistence of its people, a narrative of agricultural endeavor that has shaped its very character since its founding. This is a community built on the bounty of the prairie, where the local economy remains firmly rooted in the cultivation and processing of crops that feed the nation. The grain elevators, stark sentinels against the open sky, stand as silent testaments to this enduring legacy, their silos holding the year's harvest. While the wider world rushes by on highways that skirt its edges, life in Longview moves at a pace dictated by the seasons, a steady rhythm that honors tradition and fosters a deep connection to the earth. There's a palpable sense of shared history, a quiet understanding among its residents that they are part of something larger, a continuous thread woven through generations of hard work and shared purpose.
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| Location | Longview, Champaign County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.8867°N, 88.066427°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61852 |
| Area Code | 309 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Longview, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Longview, 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 Longview includes coordinates 39.886700°N, 88.066427°W, situated in Champaign County. ZIP code 61852. Telephone area code: 309. 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.
