Hill City, Kansas Weather
Hill City, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Hill City, Graham County.
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About Hill City, Kansas
Hill City is a place where the sky feels like a vast, pale blue canvas, stretching endlessly over land that rolls with a quiet, determined grace. It lies 100.6 miles south-south-west of Kearney, NE (from Kearney, NE: bearing 204°T), and is situated 23.6 miles north of WaKeeney. The horizon here is a clean, sharp line, unbroken by the clutter of dense woods or towering mountains, allowing the wind to sweep unimpeded across the fields. Sunlight, when it catches the dry grasses, can turn the landscape into a shimmering sea of gold, a fleeting beauty that speaks of resilience. The air itself often carries the clean, earthy scent of cultivated soil and the faint, sweet perfume of wildflowers that bloom stubbornly in the ditches and along the roadsides, a testament to the enduring spirit of this prairie country. The story of Hill City is written in the furrows of its wheat fields and the sturdy architecture of its buildings. This is a community built on the back of agriculture, a legacy stretching back to the homesteaders who tamed this land, their hopes and hard work still echoing in the quiet hum of the grain elevators. The local economy still largely revolves around the bounty of the earth, with the rhythm of planting and harvest dictating the pulse of daily life. You can see it in the steady stream of pickup trucks heading out to the fields, or the hushed conversations at the local diner as neighbors share news and the weather. There’s a straightforwardness to Hill City, a lack of pretense that comes from generations of people who understand the value of honest labor and the simple, profound beauty of an open sky.
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| Location | Hill City, Graham County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 39.364728°N, 99.842065°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67642 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Hill City, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hill 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 Hill City includes coordinates 39.364728°N, 99.842065°W, situated in Graham County. ZIP code 67642. 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.
