Salisbury, Illinois Weather
Salisbury, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Salisbury, Sangamon County.
Full aviation weather for Salisbury is published on the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (KSPI) page, 12 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 Salisbury 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 Salisbury: Jacksonville Municipal Airport (KIJX) 40 km · Havana Regional Airport (K9I0) 42 km · Logan County Airport (KAAA) 50 km · Greater Beardstown Airport (KK06) 52 km · Zelmer Memorial Airpark Inc Airport (K5K1) 55 km
Conditions reported at KSPI describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Salisbury specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Salisbury.
About Salisbury, Illinois
Salisbury rests in a gently rolling landscape, where the broad, fertile fields of central Illinois stretch toward horizons that seem to hold the sky captive. It lies 10.2 miles north-west of Springfield, IL (from Springfield, IL: bearing 307°T), and is situated 8.8 miles south-south-east of Petersburg. The land here is a study in patient agriculture, a quilt of corn and soybeans that shifts from deep emerald in the spring to a golden, sun-baked ochre by late summer. The air, particularly on a humid afternoon, carries a faint, sweet scent of drying earth and distant mown hay, a perfume unique to this kind of prairie country. The houses, many of them sturdy, clapboard affairs with wide porches, seem to settle comfortably into their plots, their white trim catching the afternoon sun like scattered pearls. The quiet hum of cicadas provides a constant, low-frequency soundtrack to the slow turning of the days. The story of Salisbury is one of endurance and adaptation, deeply rooted in the rich soil that has sustained generations. Its economy has always been tethered to the bounty of the surrounding farmland, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels along the railway lines that once pulsed with the rhythm of commerce. While agriculture remains central, the community has also found its footing in the practical trades and services that support a rural life, a steady, dependable heartbeat. The town itself, small and unpretentious, offers a sense of continuity; its modest Main Street, lined with businesses that have weathered decades, speaks to a resilience born of necessity and a quiet pride in simple things.
Live animated radar for Salisbury 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 | Salisbury, Sangamon County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.889772°N, 89.798162°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62677, 62353 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Salisbury, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Salisbury, 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 Salisbury includes coordinates 39.889772°N, 89.798162°W, situated in Sangamon County. ZIP code 62677, 62353. Telephone area code: 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.
