Rochester, Illinois Weather
Rochester, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Rochester, Wabash County.
Full aviation weather for Rochester is published on the Mount Carmel Municipal Airport (KAJG) page, 30 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 Rochester 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 Rochester: Carmi Municipal Airport (KCUL) 38 km · Evansville Regional Airport (KEVV) 43 km · O'Neal Airport (KOEA) 45 km · Lawrenceville Vincennes International Airport (KLWV) 50 km · Fairfield Municipal Airport (KFWC) 51 km
Conditions reported at KAJG describe the airfield itself. Weather 30 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rochester specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rochester.
About Rochester, Illinois
Rochester rests low in the Wabash County landscape, a quiet sprawl of fields and woods. It lies 22.8 miles north-west of Vanderburgh, IN (from Vanderburgh, IN: bearing 324°T), and is situated 5.8 miles south-west of Mount Carmel. The terrain here is gently rolled, the land yielding to the slow, deliberate work of water over millennia. Creeks, small and unassuming, thread their way through the fields, their banks softened by wild grasses and the occasional stoic oak. The sky above Rochester often feels vast, an immense canvas of shifting blues and grays, particularly in the late afternoon when the sun dips low, casting long, hazy shadows across the cultivated earth. The air, especially in spring and autumn, carries a clean, earthy scent, a subtle perfume of damp soil and growing things. The history of Rochester is intertwined with the fertile soil it occupies, a place where agriculture has always been the quiet hum beneath the surface of daily life. For generations, the land has provided, yielding corn and soybeans that stretch to the horizon, their green rows a familiar pattern against the summer sky. Though no grand monuments mark its past, the stories of those who worked this land, the families who built homes and raised children here, are etched into the very character of Rochester. The local economy, while modest, draws its strength from this enduring connection to the earth, a steady, unassuming pulse that defines the rhythm of life in this corner of Illinois.
Live animated radar for Rochester 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 | Rochester, Wabash County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 38.345602°N, 87.828085°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62863, 62563 |
| Area Code | 618, 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rochester, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rochester, 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 Rochester includes coordinates 38.345602°N, 87.828085°W, situated in Wabash County. ZIP code 62863, 62563. Telephone area code: 618, 217. 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.
