White City, Illinois Weather
White City, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for White City, Macoupin County.
Full aviation weather for White City is published on the St Louis Regional Airport (KALN) page, 31 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 White City 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 White City: Greenville Airport (KGRE) 42 km · Zelmer Memorial Airpark Inc Airport (K5K1) 44 km · Vandalia Municipal Airport (KVLA) 52 km · Scott AFB/Midamerica Airport (KBLV) 58 km · St Charles County Regional Airport/Smartt Field (KSET) 60 km
Conditions reported at KALN describe the airfield itself. Weather 31 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at White City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for White City.
About White City, Illinois
White City rests in a wide, open prairie landscape, where the horizon stretches to meet the vast Illinois sky. It lies 20.3 miles north-north-east of Edwardsville, IL (from Edwardsville, IL: bearing 30°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south-west of Litchfield. The land here is not dramatic, but rather a gentle, sweeping terrain, marked by the patient work of agriculture. Fields of corn and soybeans ripple in the breeze, their green and gold hues shifting with the sun’s slow arc across the heavens. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a clean, earthy scent, a testament to the fertile soil that has sustained life and livelihood here for generations. Evenings bring a particular quiet, a hush that descends upon White City as the day’s labor concludes, leaving behind the soft glow of distant farm lights against the deepening twilight. The history of White City is bound to the coal seams that once pulsed beneath this unassuming prairie. For a time, the black dust of the mines was the lifeblood of the community, drawing families and fueling a robust local economy. Though the seams have long since been depleted and the mines silenced, the echoes of that era remain. The character of White City still carries a certain resilience, a quiet strength forged in the days of hard work and shared endeavor. Today, agriculture again dominates the landscape, the tractors a familiar sight as they tend the land that, in turn, provides for the people of White City, its enduring spirit etched not in grand monuments, but in the steady continuity of the seasons and the enduring connection to the earth.
Live animated radar for White City 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 | White City, Macoupin County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.064769°N, 89.763427°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62627, 62069 |
| Area Code | 217, 309 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This White City, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for White City, 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 White City includes coordinates 39.064769°N, 89.763427°W, situated in Macoupin County. ZIP code 62627, 62069. Telephone area code: 217, 309. 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.
