Pekin, Illinois Weather
Pekin, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Pekin, Tazewell County.
Full aviation weather for Pekin is published on the Pekin Municipal Airport (KC15) page, 9 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 Pekin 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 Pekin: General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (KPIA) 12 km · Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (K3MY) 25 km · Ingersoll Airport (KCTK) 37 km · Havana Regional Airport (K9I0) 50 km · Logan County Airport (KAAA) 52 km
Conditions reported at KC15 describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pekin specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Pekin, Illinois
Pekin sits on flat land, a broad expanse where the Illinois River bends and the sky seems to stretch forever. It lies 9.1 miles south-south-west of Peoria, IL (from Peoria, IL: bearing 197°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south-south-west of East Peoria. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a muted, earthy scent, a mix of drying corn stalks and the faint, metallic tang of industry. Streetlights begin to hum to life, casting long shadows across the asphalt and glinting off the chrome of pickup trucks parked outside familiar storefronts. The landscape is a study in patient horizontality, broken only by the occasional grain elevator reaching skyward like a silent sentinel. This stretch of Tazewell County has always known the river's pull, shaping its fortunes from early steamboat days to the barge traffic that still hums along its watery veins. Pekin’s history is tied to the processing of agricultural bounty, a legacy that lingers in the steady hum of machinery and the vast fields that surround it. For generations, this was a place where hard work met the land, and the echoes of that endeavor can still be felt in the pragmatic, no-nonsense character of its people. The Illinois River remains a vital artery, a reminder of the enduring connection between Pekin and the broader currents of commerce and nature.
Live animated radar for Pekin 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 | Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.567539°N, 89.640658°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61554, 61555, 61558 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pekin, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pekin, 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 Pekin includes coordinates 40.567539°N, 89.640658°W, situated in Tazewell County. ZIP code 61554, 61555, 61558. 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.
