Montezuma, Kansas Weather
Montezuma, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Montezuma, Gray County.
Full aviation weather for Montezuma is published on the Montezuma Municipal Airport (K17) page, 3 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 Montezuma 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 Montezuma: Jenkinson Airport (KM64) 26 km · Borth Field (K3K4) 32 km · Meade Municipal Airport (KMEJ) 36 km · Plains Municipal Airport (KS44) 39 km · Garden City Regional Airport (KGCK) 44 km
Conditions reported at K17 describe the airfield itself. Weather 3 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Montezuma specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Montezuma.
About Montezuma, Kansas
Montezuma rests on a Kansas prairie where the horizon unfurls in an almost unbroken sweep of tawny grasses and cultivated fields, a landscape sculpted by wind and a sky that seems to stretch into eternity. It lies 25.7 miles west-south-west of Dodge City, KS (from Dodge City, KS: bearing 245°T), and is situated 15.5 miles south-south-west of Cimarron. The land here breathes a quiet immensity, the air carrying the dry scent of dust and sun-baked earth, especially potent in the late afternoon when the light softens, turning the distant windbreaks into hazy, blue-green smudges. The architecture of Montezuma itself is modest, a collection of sturdy buildings that seem to have weathered the elements with a stoic resilience, their facades a muted palette of weathered brick and pale siding. Even the shadows, when they lengthen across the main street, possess a certain depth, a testament to the vast openness that surrounds this place. The history of Montezuma is intrinsically tied to the agricultural heart of Gray County, its fortunes rising and falling with the yield of wheat and sorghum that carpets the surrounding plains. The town, like many in this region, was born of the railroad and the promise of fertile land, a place where hardy settlers carved a life out of the seemingly endless expanse. The local economy still leans heavily on the bounty of the soil, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels, their tall silhouettes a familiar punctuation mark against the wide sky. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions here, but rather a palpable sense of continuity, a quiet understanding of the land's enduring power and the enduring spirit of the people who have chosen to call Montezuma home.
Live animated radar for Montezuma 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 | Montezuma, Gray County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.595856°N, 100.443205°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67867 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Montezuma, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Montezuma, 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 Montezuma includes coordinates 37.595856°N, 100.443205°W, situated in Gray County. ZIP code 67867. 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.
