Hill City, Kansas Weather
Hill City, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Hill City, Graham County.
Full aviation weather for Hill City is published on the Hill City Municipal Airport (KHLC) page, 2 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. 4 airfields within reach of Hill City 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 Hill City: Trego WaKeeney Airport (K0H1) 40 km · Rooks County Regional Airport (KRCP) 46 km · Norton Municipal Airport (KNRN) 54 km
Conditions reported at KHLC describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Hill City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Hill City.
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.
Live animated radar for Hill City 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 | 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 | September 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, 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 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. 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.
