Drakesboro, Kentucky Weather
Drakesboro, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Drakesboro, Muhlenberg County.
Full aviation weather for Drakesboro is published on the Muhlenberg County Airport (KM21) 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 Drakesboro 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 Drakesboro: Ohio County Airport (KJQD) 32 km · Russellville Logan County Airport (K4M7) 51 km · Hopkinsville Christian County Airport (KHVC) 54 km · Tradewater Airport (K8M7) 56 km · Owensboro Daviess County Airport (KOWB) 59 km
Conditions reported at KM21 describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Drakesboro specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Drakesboro.
About Drakesboro, Kentucky
Drakesboro lies low in a valley where the land begins to swell into the gentle, rolling hills characteristic of Muhlenberg County. It lies 34.3 miles north-east of Hopkinsville, KY (from Hopkinsville, KY: bearing 45°T), and is situated 6.7 miles south-east of Central City. The sky overhead, a vast expanse of pale blue on a clear day, often softens into a hazy, golden wash as the sun begins its descent, casting long shadows across fields of ripening corn and soybeans. The air here carries the earthy scent of turned soil and, in the humid summer months, the faint, sweet perfume of honeysuckle clinging to fence lines. The landscape itself feels lived-in, unpretentious, a place where the persistent green of Kentucky flora has long since claimed the edges of weathered barns and modest homes. The history of Drakesboro is inextricably bound to the rich veins of coal that lie beneath this very ground, a legacy that shaped its founding and fueled its early growth. For generations, the rhythmic clang of pickaxes and the rumble of mining carts were the town's heartbeat, drawing families and forging a resilient, hardworking spirit. Though the landscape bears the scars of its industrial past, the local economy now diversifies, with agriculture still playing a vital role, the fertile soil yielding its bounty season after season. The quiet hum of everyday life in Drakesboro is punctuated by the friendly greetings exchanged between neighbors and the distant call of a train, a reminder of the connections that bind this place to the wider world.
Live animated radar for Drakesboro 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 | Drakesboro, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37.217542°N, 87.048885°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 42337 |
| Area Code | 270 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Drakesboro, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Drakesboro, Kentucky, 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 Drakesboro includes coordinates 37.217542°N, 87.048885°W, situated in Muhlenberg County. ZIP code 42337. Telephone area code: 270. 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.
