Richfield, Kansas Weather
Richfield, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Richfield, Morton County.
Full aviation weather for Richfield is published on the Elkhart Morton County Airport (KEHA) page, 31 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 Richfield 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 Richfield: Stanton County Municipal Airport (KJHN) 36 km · Hugoton Municipal Airport (KHQG) 38 km · Ulysses Airport (KULS) 52 km
Conditions reported at KEHA describe the airfield itself. Weather 31 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Richfield specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Richfield.
About Richfield, Kansas
Richfield, Kansas, exists in a grand, horizontal expanse where the sky seems to press down with an immense, silent weight. It lies 69.7 miles south-west of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 226°T), and is situated 18.8 miles north-north-east of Elkhart. The landscape is a study in muted earth tones, a vast canvas painted with the pale gold of dormant grasses and the dusty ochre of the soil, broken only by the occasional silhouette of a windbreak or a solitary farmhouse. The air here carries a dry, clean scent, tinged with the faint, sweet perfume of prairie wildflowers that bloom with determined resilience in the brief, warm months. Evenings bring a particular kind of light, a slow, deep amber that bleeds across the horizon, turning the endless fields into a rippling sea of muted fire before the stars emerge, sharp and impossibly bright in the unpolluted darkness. The history of Richfield is entwined with the hardy spirit of those who sought a life on this wide-open land, a narrative etched not in grand monuments but in the persistent rows of wheat and sorghum that stretch towards the distant, shimmering heat. The local economy, long anchored by agriculture, relies on the predictable cycles of planting and harvest, a rhythm dictated by sun and rain. While once a stop for those traversing the western territories, Richfield today offers a quiet testament to endurance, a place where the nearest notable landmark might be a grain elevator standing sentinel against the sky, or the persistent hum of a tractor working the fertile, if unforgiving, earth.
Live animated radar for Richfield 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 | Richfield, Morton County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.266134°N, 101.782389°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67953 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Richfield, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Richfield, 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 Richfield includes coordinates 37.266134°N, 101.782389°W, situated in Morton County. ZIP code 67953. 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.
