Hills, Iowa Weather
Hills, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Hills, Johnson County.
Full aviation weather for Hills is published on the Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW) 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. 6 airfields within reach of Hills 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 Hills: Washington Municipal Airport (KAWG) 33 km · Amana Airport (KC11) 38 km · Muscatine Municipal Airport (KMUT) 38 km · Mathews Memorial Airport (K8C4) 39 km · The Eastern Iowa Airport (KCID) 40 km
Conditions reported at KIOW describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Hills specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Hills.
About Hills, Iowa
Hills, Iowa, sits quietly amidst the rolling terrain of Johnson County, a place where the land itself seems to breathe a slow, steady rhythm. It lies 7.4 miles south of Iowa City, IA (from Iowa City, IA: bearing 182°T), and is situated 8.8 miles south-south-east of Coralville. Here, the fields of corn and soybeans stretch out like verdant carpets under a sky that can shift from the softest wash of dawn pink to the bruised purples of an approaching storm. The roads, some paved and some still of packed earth, wind their way through a landscape of gentle rises and falls, punctuated by the dark, stoic shapes of barns and the occasional clustered cluster of farmhouses. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a clean, cool scent of dew-kissed soil and growing things, a primal fragrance that grounds the senses. The history of Hills is intimately tied to the agricultural heartland it inhabits, a story of families who worked the rich prairie soil, coaxing sustenance from its depths. Its economy, for generations, has been rooted in the cultivation of grain and livestock, a tradition that still defines the character of the place. Though small, Hills is a point of connection, a place where neighbors still recognize the turn of each other's headlights and the shared understanding of the seasons’ demands. The enduring presence of the land, its fertile promise and its quiet challenges, shapes the very essence of life in Hills, a continuous dialogue between human endeavor and the enduring power of the earth.
Live animated radar for Hills 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 | Hills, Johnson County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 41.554186°N, 91.534888°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 52235, 52240 |
| Area Code | 712 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Hills, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hills, 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 Hills includes coordinates 41.554186°N, 91.534888°W, situated in Johnson County. ZIP code 52235, 52240. 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.
