Exira, Iowa Weather
Exira, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Exira, Audubon County.
Full aviation weather for Exira is published on the Audubon County Airport (KADU) page, 13 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 Exira 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 Exira: Atlantic Municipal Airport (KAIO) 25 km · Guthrie County Regional Airport (KGCT) 38 km · Harlan Municipal Airport (KHNR) 39 km · Greenfield Municipal Airport (KGFZ) 46 km · Arthur N Neu Airport (KCIN) 51 km
Conditions reported at KADU describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Exira specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Exira.
About Exira, Iowa
Exira rests on a broad prairie, a place where the land unfolds in generous, sweeping curves towards horizons that seem to stretch forever under an immense Iowa sky. It lies 51.2 miles west of Waukee, IA (from Waukee, IA: bearing 269°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south-south-east of Audubon. The cultivated fields, a patchwork of greens and golds depending on the season, ripple like a slow-moving sea, punctuated by the darker, richer hues of tree lines that mark the hidden creeks and farmsteads. Even the air here feels different, carrying the scent of turned earth and ripening corn, a subtle sweetness that lingers long after the sun dips below the western edge of the world, painting the clouds in strokes of apricot and rose. The town itself, a modest collection of sturdy buildings, seems to absorb this vastness, its streets laid out with a sense of unhurried purpose, reflecting the quiet strength of the land it occupies. The history of Exira is deeply entwined with the agricultural pulse of Audubon County, a story of pioneers drawn by the fertile black soil and the promise of a life built by hand and hard work. Early settlers, many of Scandinavian descent, established a community that has always valued resilience and neighborliness, a character that still subtly informs the rhythm of daily life. The local economy, largely agricultural, continues to thrive on the bounty of the land, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels to the ceaseless cycle of planting and harvest. While Exira may not boast grand monuments, its distinctive charm lies in the quiet dignity of its people and the enduring connection to the prairie, a sense of place that feels as fundamental and deeply rooted as the native grasses that once covered this land.
Live animated radar for Exira 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 | Exira, Audubon County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 41.590821°N, 94.87554°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 50076 |
| Area Code | 515 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Exira, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Exira, 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 Exira includes coordinates 41.590821°N, 94.875540°W, situated in Audubon County. ZIP code 50076. Telephone area code: 515. 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.
