Dodge City, Kansas Weather
Dodge City, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery for Dodge City, Ford County.
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About Dodge City, Kansas
Dodge City spreads across the Kansas prairie, a place where the sky feels vast enough to swallow whole horizons, and the land rolls out in an endless, sun-baked expanse. It lies 49.1 miles east-south-east of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 108°T), and is situated 5.0 miles west-north-west of Wilroads Gardens. The air here carries the dry, clean scent of sun-dried grasses and distant dust, a constant reminder of the wide-open country that defines this western Kansas settlement. Buildings, often low-slung and painted in muted tones that echo the ochre and straw of the surrounding terrain, seem to hunker down against the wind, their awnings providing slivers of shade against the insistent sun. Even in the quietest moments, there’s a subtle hum of resilience, a sense that the land itself has shaped the character of Dodge City and its people. This is a place etched by the passage of cattle drives and the dreams of westward expansion, a name that conjures images of dusty saloons and legendary lawmen. The economic pulse of Dodge City has long been tied to the fertile soil and the agricultural bounty it yields, with grain elevators standing like silent sentinels against the blue sky, testament to the enduring power of wheat and corn. While the rough-and-tumble frontier days have long since passed, a spirit of pragmatic optimism, a willingness to face down challenges head-on, still seems to imbue the town. The Santa Fe Trail, a ghost of commerce and connection, once traversed this very ground, leaving behind echoes of a vital artery that connected East to West, and it's a history that continues to inform the identity of Dodge City.
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| Location | Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.752798°N, 100.017079°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67801 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dodge City, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dodge City, Kansas, 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 Dodge City includes coordinates 37.752798°N, 100.017079°W, situated in Ford County. ZIP code 67801. Telephone area code: 785. 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.
