Ventura, Iowa Weather
Ventura, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ventura, Cerro Gordo County.
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About Ventura, Iowa
Ventura rests in a landscape shaped by the slow, deliberate hand of prairie agriculture, where the land rolls with a gentle, persistent swell, a subtle topography that belies the vastness of the Iowa sky above. It lies 14.1 miles west of Mason City, IA (from Mason City, IA: bearing 262°T), and is situated 5.0 miles west of Clear Lake. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries the mingled scents of drying corn stalks and the faint, earthy perfume of damp soil, a fragrance that seems to settle into the very bones of the place. Fields of soybeans and corn stretch to the horizon, their cultivated geometry a testament to human endeavor against the wilder inclinations of the earth, and the occasional stand of cottonwood trees, their leaves a shimmering silver-green, break the uniformity with a touch of wild grace. The quiet here is not an absence of sound, but a different kind of presence, filled with the hum of distant tractors, the chirping of unseen birds, and the sigh of wind through the tall grasses at the field edges. This corner of Cerro Gordo County, once traversed by nomadic peoples and later by settlers drawn to the fertile soil, has seen its fortunes rise and fall with the cycles of the land. Ventura's early lifeblood was tied to the railroad and the grain elevators that once punctuated the skyline, silent sentinels of a booming agricultural economy. While the direct connection to the iron horse has faded, the spirit of that industrious past persists, evident in the careful upkeep of homes and the quiet pride of its residents. The local economy still leans heavily on the bounty of the surrounding farms, the rhythm of planting and harvest dictating the pace of life. A distinctive feature, a subtle reminder of the region's geological history, can be found in the occasional outcroppings of limestone, remnants of ancient seabeds, which lend a unique texture to the otherwise uniform prairie floor.
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| Location | Ventura, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 43.126348°N, 93.477707°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 50482, 50428 |
| Area Code | 515 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ventura, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ventura, Iowa, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Ventura includes coordinates 43.126348°N, 93.477707°W, situated in Cerro Gordo County. ZIP code 50482, 50428. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
