Ventura, Iowa Weather
Ventura, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ventura, Cerro Gordo County.
Full aviation weather for Ventura is published on the Mason City Municipal Airport (KMCW) 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 Ventura 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 Ventura: Forest City Municipal Airport (KFXY) 17 km · Lake Mills Municipal Airport (K0Y6) 32 km · Clarion Municipal Airport (KCAV) 48 km · Hampton Municipal Airport (KHPT) 49 km · Eagle Grove Municipal Airport (KEAG) 58 km
Conditions reported at KMCW describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ventura specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ventura.
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.
Live animated radar for Ventura 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 | 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 | September 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, 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 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. 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.
