Onaga, Kansas Weather
Onaga, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Onaga, Pottawatomie County.
Full aviation weather for Onaga is published on the Wamego Municipal Airport (K69K) page, 33 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 Onaga 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 Onaga: Marysville Municipal Airport (KMYZ) 57 km · Sabetha Municipal Airport (K83) 57 km · Manhattan Regional Airport (KMHK) 58 km · Horton Municipal Airport (K91) 58 km
Conditions reported at K69K describe the airfield itself. Weather 33 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Onaga specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Onaga.
About Onaga, Kansas
Onaga unfolds across a landscape of gentle hills, where the Kansas prairie begins its slow, deliberate swell towards the horizon. It lies 30.1 miles north-east of Manhattan, KS (from Manhattan, KS: bearing 45°T), and is situated 19.9 miles south-east of Frankfort. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a clean, dry scent of sun-baked earth and ripening grain, a fragrance that clings to the sparse, sturdy trees dotting the fields. The land itself is a patchwork of cultivated squares and emerald pastures, crisscrossed by unpaved roads that fade into shimmering heat hazes during the summer months. Even the shadows seem to possess a certain weight, stretching long and thin across the low-lying fields as the sun descends, painting the sky in hues of bruised purple and fading orange, a quiet testament to the vast, open sky that presides over Onaga. The story of Onaga is one of resilience and adaptation, its roots intertwined with the agricultural heart of Pottawatomie County. For generations, the fertile soil has sustained the local economy, primarily through the cultivation of corn and soybeans, their golden stalks rustling like whispered secrets in the prairie wind. The railroad, a lifeline in earlier days, still traces its route through the periphery, a silent monument to the town's connection to the wider world. While the echoes of its founding linger in the weathered facades of its older buildings, Onaga possesses a character that is both grounded in tradition and quietly embracing of the present, a place where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life, and the quiet strength of the land shapes the spirit of its people.
Live animated radar for Onaga 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 | Onaga, Pottawatomie County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 39.488885°N, 96.169999°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 66521 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Onaga, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Onaga, 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 Onaga includes coordinates 39.488885°N, 96.169999°W, situated in Pottawatomie County. ZIP code 66521. 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.
