Ainsworth, Iowa Weather
Ainsworth, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ainsworth, Washington County.
Full aviation weather for Ainsworth is published on the Washington Municipal Airport (KAWG) page, 10 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. 5 airfields within reach of Ainsworth 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 Ainsworth: Muscatine Municipal Airport (KMUT) 35 km · Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport (KMPZ) 38 km · Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW) 39 km · Fairfield Municipal Airport (KFFL) 44 km
Conditions reported at KAWG describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ainsworth specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ainsworth.
About Ainsworth, Iowa
Ainsworth rests in a broad, open sweep of Iowa land, where the fields unfurl like bolts of woven green and gold under a sky that seems to stretch on forever. It lies 25.7 miles south of Iowa City, IA (from Iowa City, IA: bearing 183°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east of Washington. The terrain here is a gentle, rolling prairie, etched by the slow, persistent work of water over millennia, creating shallow valleys and broad, rounded hills that cradle farmsteads and stretch toward distant horizons. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a clean, earthy scent, tinged with the faint sweetness of ripening corn and the dry dust of summer roads. Even in the quietude, there's a sense of vastness, a feeling that the land itself breathes, expanding and contracting with the seasons, and the occasional whisper of wind through the tall prairie grasses is the only sound to break the profound stillness. The history of Ainsworth is bound to the rich soil that has sustained it, a legacy of hardy settlers who saw potential in this fertile ground. Agriculture has long been the heart of Ainsworth’s economy, with generations of families cultivating the land, their lives marked by the planting and harvesting cycles of corn, soybeans, and other grains. The town itself, small and unassuming, possesses a quiet resilience, a character forged in the shared experiences of rural life. Though no grand monuments dominate the landscape, the enduring spirit of the place can be felt in the well-maintained farmhouses, the sturdy grain elevators that punctuate the skyline, and the simple, enduring rhythm of daily life that continues to unfold here, much as it has for over a century.
Live animated radar for Ainsworth 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 | Ainsworth, Washington County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 41.28891°N, 91.552384°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 52201 |
| Area Code | 712 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ainsworth, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ainsworth, Iowa, 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 Ainsworth includes coordinates 41.288910°N, 91.552384°W, situated in Washington County. ZIP code 52201. Telephone area code: 712. 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.
