Girard, Kansas Weather
Girard, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Girard, Crawford County.
Full aviation weather for Girard is published on the Atkinson Municipal Airport (KPTS) page, 12 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 Girard 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 Girard: Fort Scott Municipal Airport (KFSK) 32 km · Oswego Municipal Airport (K67) 43 km · Lamar Municipal Airport (KLLU) 46 km · Joplin Regional Airport (KJLN) 50 km · Chanute Martin Johnson Airport (KCNU) 60 km
Conditions reported at KPTS describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Girard specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Girard.
About Girard, Kansas
Girard rests on a gently rolling landscape, the earth a rich, fertile brown, often softened by a fine dust that settles on everything like a muted blessing. It lies 34.5 miles north-north-west of Joplin, MO (from Joplin, MO: bearing 329°T), and is situated 9.0 miles west-north-west of Frontenac. The sky above is vast, a boundless canvas where clouds drift in slow procession, catching the sun's slant in hues of rose and apricot as evening approaches. Here, the land is not dramatic, but possesses a quiet, enduring strength, a subtle resilience in the way the grasses bend and sway in the persistent breeze. The air carries the clean scent of turned soil and the distant, faint perfume of blooming wildflowers, a whisper of the natural world that surrounds the human endeavors within Girard. The history of Girard is deeply entwined with the earth it occupies, its founding spurred by the discovery of coal beneath these very fields. For decades, the rhythmic clang and rumble of mining operations were the heartbeat of this place, shaping its character and economy. While the deep seams have long since been exhausted, the legacy of those who worked the darkness remains, a quiet strength in the town's memory and the stoic faces of its residents. Today, agriculture continues to be a vital thread in the fabric of Girard, with fields of grain stretching towards the horizon, their golden heads nodding in unison under the wide Kansas sky. The local economy, though changed from its mining heyday, retains a grounded practicality, a focus on the enduring cycles of planting and harvest.
Live animated radar for Girard 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 | Girard, Crawford County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.51116°N, 94.838022°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 66743 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Girard, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Girard, Kansas, 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 Girard includes coordinates 37.511160°N, 94.838022°W, situated in Crawford County. ZIP code 66743. Telephone area code: 913. 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.
