Valley Center, Kansas Weather
Valley Center, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Valley Center, Sedgwick County.
Full aviation weather for Valley Center is published on the Riverside Airport (KK32) page, 10 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 Valley Center 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 Valley Center: Colonel James Jabara Airport (KAAO) 16 km · Beech Factory Airport (KBEC) 21 km · Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (KICT) 21 km · Cessna Aircraft Field (KCEA) 23 km · McConnell Air Force Base (KIAB) 25 km
Conditions reported at KK32 describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Valley Center specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Valley Center.
About Valley Center, Kansas
Valley Center unfurls beneath a vast Kansas sky, a landscape of gentle, rolling plains that seem to breathe with the wind. It lies 10.0 miles north of Wichita, KS (from Wichita, KS: bearing 349°T), and is situated 3.8 miles north-west of Park City. Here, the land is a tapestry of cultivated fields, their emerald and gold hues shifting with the seasons, interspersed with the deep, dark green of windbreaks that march across the horizon like patient sentinels. The air, especially in the languid hours of late afternoon, carries a palpable stillness, a profound quietude broken only by the distant hum of machinery or the sharp, clear call of a meadowlark. Sunlight, when it descends, does so with a golden benediction, bathing the open spaces in a warm, ethereal glow that makes the very earth seem to sigh. The history of Valley Center is etched not in grand monuments, but in the persistent spirit of those who have worked this land. Its economy, deeply rooted in agriculture, still thrives on the bounty of wheat, corn, and soybeans, crops that have sustained generations. The town’s character is one of quiet resilience, a place where neighbors still know each other’s names and the rhythm of life is dictated by the cycles of planting and harvest. Though not boasting grand attractions, Valley Center offers the simple, enduring beauty of the prairie, a place where the sky is an ever-present companion and the land itself tells stories of perseverance and enduring hope.
Live animated radar for Valley Center 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 | Valley Center, Sedgwick County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.834734°N, 97.373376°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67147 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Valley Center, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Valley Center, 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 Valley Center includes coordinates 37.834734°N, 97.373376°W, situated in Sedgwick County. ZIP code 67147. 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.
