Mentor, Kansas Weather
Mentor, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mentor, Saline County.
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About Mentor, Kansas
Mentor, Kansas, lies cradled by the broad, sweeping plains that define central Kansas, a landscape where the sky feels impossibly vast and the horizon stretches into an endless, soft blur of green and gold. It lies 6.9 miles south of Salina, KS (from Salina, KS: bearing 176°T), and is situated 4.2 miles north of Assaria. The land here is gently rolling, a tapestry of cultivated fields and pastureland, punctuated by the occasional cluster of cottonwoods or the silver ribbon of a slow-moving creek. Evenings often bring a profound stillness, broken only by the distant lowing of cattle or the whisper of wind through the tall prairie grass, and the light at dusk possesses a luminous, almost ethereal quality, painting the sky in hues of rose and lavender that linger long after the sun has dipped below the edge of the world. The history of Mentor is deeply entwined with the agricultural spirit of Saline County. This is a place built on the sturdy foundation of farming, where generations have worked the rich soil, coaxing sustenance from the earth. The local economy still largely revolves around this enduring connection to the land, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels to the bounty of the harvest. While no grand monuments mark its past, the quiet resilience of its people, their dedication to the land and to each other, forms the true character of Mentor. The very air here seems to carry the scent of sun-baked earth and ripening wheat, a constant reminder of the enduring cycles of life and labor that have shaped this corner of Kansas.
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| Location | Mentor, Saline County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 38.74056°N, 97.603091°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67416, 67401 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mentor, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mentor, 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 Mentor includes coordinates 38.740560°N, 97.603091°W, situated in Saline County. ZIP code 67416, 67401. 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.
