Mahaska, Kansas Weather
Mahaska, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mahaska, Washington County.
Full aviation weather for Mahaska is published on the Hebron Municipal Airport (KHJH) page, 27 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. 5 airfields within reach of Mahaska 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 Mahaska: Fairbury Municipal Airport (KFBY) 27 km · Belleville Municipal Airport (KRPB) 32 km · Washington County Memorial Airport (K38) 38 km · Blosser Municipal Airport (KCNK) 55 km
Conditions reported at KHJH describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mahaska specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mahaska.
About Mahaska, Kansas
Mahaska lies under a wide Kansas sky, a place where the land breathes in long, slow exhales of prairie. It lies 66.8 miles south-south-west of Lincoln, NE (from Lincoln, NE: bearing 213°T), and is situated 13.8 miles south-west of Fairbury. Rolling swells of tawny grass, stitched with the brighter green of summer crops, stretch to horizons that seem to go on forever. The air here, especially in the late afternoon when the sun dips low, carries a scent of sun-baked earth and wild blossoms, a fragrance as potent and fleeting as a memory. Small farmsteads, dots of white and red against the verdant expanse, punctuate the landscape, each a solitary sentinel guarding its patch of fertile soil. The very shape of the land, a gentle, almost imperceptible rise and fall, suggests a quiet resilience, a character shaped by wind and sun, by the patient turning of seasons. This corner of Washington County, Mahaska, carries the quiet hum of an agricultural heart. Its history is written in the rich, dark soil that has sustained generations of farmers, coaxing wheat, corn, and soybeans from its depths. The local economy, like the land itself, is fundamentally tied to the cycles of planting and harvest, a rhythm understood by every resident. While no grand monuments mark its founding, the enduring presence of the family farm and the small, close-knit community speaks volumes of its heritage. The simple, unadorned clapboard buildings of Mahaska’s few businesses reflect a practicality born of necessity, a place where life moves at a pace dictated by sunlight and the needs of the earth, a place that feels as enduring as the prairie itself.
Live animated radar for Mahaska 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 | Mahaska, Washington County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 39.987505°N, 97.354205°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 66955 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mahaska, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mahaska, 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 Mahaska includes coordinates 39.987505°N, 97.354205°W, situated in Washington County. ZIP code 66955. 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.
