Syracuse, Kansas Weather
Syracuse, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Syracuse, Hamilton County.
Full aviation weather for Syracuse is published on the Syracuse Hamilton County Municipal Airport (K3K3) page, 2 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 Syracuse 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 Syracuse: Holly Airport (KK08) 32 km · Stanton County Municipal Airport (KJHN) 44 km · Ulysses Airport (KULS) 54 km
Conditions reported at K3K3 describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Syracuse specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Syracuse.
About Syracuse, Kansas
Syracuse broods under a vast Kansas sky, a low-slung settlement on the western edge of Hamilton County. It lies 47.9 miles west of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 271°T), and is situated 27.3 miles west of Lakin. The land rolls out in broad, sun-bleached plains, the tawny grasses whispering secrets to the wind that sweeps unimpeded across the horizon. The Arkansas River, a serpentine ribbon of muted silver, threads its way through this dry expanse, its banks a fragile green against the prevailing ochre. Even in the midday heat, there’s a stillness here, a profound quietude that settles into the bones, broken only by the distant rumble of a passing truck or the insistent chirp of unseen insects. The light, when it catches the dust kicked up by the breeze, takes on a hazy, golden quality, as if the very air itself is woven from spun sunlight. This is a place shaped by the enduring spirit of those who sought opportunity on the open prairie, a history etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet perseverance of its people. Syracuse found its footing as a railroad town, a vital stop along the lines that carried grain and cattle eastward, and the echoes of that bustling past still linger in the weathered facades of older buildings. The local economy remains tethered to the land, with agriculture—primarily wheat and corn—forming the backbone of its sustenance, the vast fields stretching out like an endless, cultivated sea. In the evenings, as the sun dips below the treeless horizon, painting the sky in hues of bruised plum and fiery orange, the town exhales, a slow, steady rhythm that speaks of a life lived in harmony with the vast, unfurling landscape.
Live animated radar for Syracuse 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 | Syracuse, Hamilton County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.980569°N, 101.752672°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67878 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Syracuse, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Syracuse, 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 Syracuse includes coordinates 37.980569°N, 101.752672°W, situated in Hamilton County. ZIP code 67878. Telephone area code: 785. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
