Sun City, Kansas Weather
Sun City, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sun City, Barber County.
Full aviation weather for Sun City is published on the Medicine Lodge Airport (KK51) page, 35 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. 3 airfields within reach of Sun City 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 Sun City: Pratt Regional Airport (KPTT) 39 km · Comanche County Airport (K3K8) 40 km
Conditions reported at KK51 describe the airfield itself. Weather 35 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sun City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sun City.
About Sun City, Kansas
Sun City lies on the Kansas prairie, a place where the sky seems to stretch on forever, a vast, pale blue canvas brushed with the occasional slow-drifting cloud. It lies 65.6 miles east-south-east of Dodge City, KS (from Dodge City, KS: bearing 113°T), and is situated 19.6 miles west-north-west of Medicine Lodge. The land here is a study in subtle contours, gentle swells that rise and fall across the horizon, broken only by the occasional cluster of cottonwood trees that mark a farmstead or a watercourse. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a dry, clean scent, a mixture of sun-baked earth and the faint, sweet perfume of ripening wheat. Even the silence here has a texture, a deep hum of insect life and the distant sigh of wind through the tall grasses that carpet the fields. The history of Sun City is tied to the tenacious spirit of those who first settled this wide-open country, drawn by the promise of fertile soil and a life of independence. Agriculture remains the lifeblood, with vast fields of wheat and sorghum stretching out like golden seas, their bounty feeding distant markets. While there are no grand monuments, the weathered silos and the sturdy, unadorned farmhouses stand as quiet testaments to generations of hard work. The local economy, though modest, is built on this enduring connection to the land, a dependable rhythm dictated by the seasons and the sun’s unwavering gaze. Sun City, in its quiet persistence, embodies the enduring character of the Kansas plains.
Live animated radar for Sun City 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 | Sun City, Barber County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.378633°N, 98.915933°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67143 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sun City, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sun City, 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 Sun City includes coordinates 37.378633°N, 98.915933°W, situated in Barber County. ZIP code 67143. 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.
