Louisville, Illinois Weather
Louisville, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Louisville, Clay County.
Full aviation weather for Louisville is published on the Flora Municipal Airport (KFOA) page, 13 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 Louisville 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 Louisville: Olney Noble Airport (KOLY) 29 km · Effingham County Memorial Airport (K1H2) 33 km · Salem–Leckrone Airport (KSLO) 43 km · Fairfield Municipal Airport (KFWC) 44 km · Centralia Municipal Airport (KENL) 59 km
Conditions reported at KFOA describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Louisville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Louisville, Illinois
Louisville rests in a landscape where the land itself seems to sigh with gentle, rolling contours, giving way to broader expanses of cultivated fields. It lies 54.0 miles west-south-west of York, IL (from York, IL: bearing 240°T), and is situated 7.2 miles north of Flora. The air here, especially when the sun dips low, carries the sweet, earthy scent of turned soil and ripening corn, a perfume that clings to the very skin. Great swathes of mature oak and sycamore trees fringe the edges of these agricultural plains, their leaves whispering secrets to the persistent breeze that sweeps across the open country. The sky above Louisville often stretches vast and a pale, washed blue, a canvas for clouds that drift with an almost deliberate slowness, hinting at the quiet expanse of the Illinois landscape. The lifeblood of Louisville has long been tied to the fertile earth, a legacy evident in the abundant farms that surround it. This is a place where the echoes of past generations, who coaxed sustenance from this very ground, can still be felt. The local economy, while perhaps less dominated by the once-prominent agricultural enterprises, retains a deep connection to the land, with businesses catering to the needs of the farming community and processing the bounty of the harvest. Scattered throughout Louisville, and the surrounding countryside, are remnants of earlier eras – weathered barns that stand as stoic sentinels and old farmhouses that seem to hold the memories of lives lived out under these wide-open skies, each with its own quiet story to tell.
Live animated radar for Louisville 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 | Louisville, Clay County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 38.772269°N, 88.502548°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62858 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Louisville, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Louisville, 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 Louisville includes coordinates 38.772269°N, 88.502548°W, situated in Clay County. ZIP code 62858. Telephone area code: 618. 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.
