Orleans, Indiana Weather
Orleans, Indiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Orleans, Orange County.
Full aviation weather for Orleans is published on the Orleans Airport (K7I4) page, 1 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 Orleans 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 Orleans: Paoli Municipal Airport (KI42) 9 km · Virgil I Grissom Municipal Airport (KBFR) 20 km · French Lick Municipal Airport (KFRH) 24 km · Salem Municipal Airport (KI83) 27 km · Freeman Municipal Airport (KSER) 55 km
Conditions reported at K7I4 describe the airfield itself. Weather 1 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Orleans specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Orleans.
About Orleans, Indiana
Orleans lies in a hollow, a place where the land softens into rolling hills and broad, fertile fields under a sky that can shift from brilliant blue to the bruised purple of an approaching storm with startling speed. It lies 35.0 miles south of Bloomington, IN (from Bloomington, IN: bearing 173°T), and is situated 5.1 miles south-south-east of Mitchell. The air here carries the scent of damp earth after a spring rain, or the dry, sun-baked dust of late summer, and the slow, deep green of the surrounding woods seems to absorb the heat of the day, releasing it in a humid sigh as dusk settles. The houses, often painted in muted colors that blend with the landscape, line streets that follow the gentle contours of the land, their porches a common gathering place for quiet conversation as fireflies begin their silent, blinking dance. The history of Orleans is tied to the fertile soil and the steady flow of nearby waterways, remnants of a time when agriculture was the lifeblood of the region. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of good farmland, established a community that grew with the quiet persistence of a well-tended crop. While the timber industry once played a significant role, its presence now is more of a memory, a whisper in the rustling leaves of the dense forests that still claim much of the surrounding terrain. Today, Orleans retains a certain placid dignity, its economy a reflection of the broader agricultural and small-town commerce of Orange County, a place where the rhythm of life is measured less by the clock and more by the seasons.
Live animated radar for Orleans 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 | Orleans, Orange County, Indiana |
| Coordinates | 38.66172°N, 86.451656°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 47452 |
| Area Code | 317 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Orleans, Indiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Orleans, Indiana, 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 Orleans includes coordinates 38.661720°N, 86.451656°W, situated in Orange County. ZIP code 47452. Telephone area code: 317. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).
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.
