Hodgenville, Kentucky Weather
Hodgenville, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Hodgenville, Larue County.
Full aviation weather for Hodgenville is published on the Addington Field / Elizabethtown Regional Airport (KEKX) page, 20 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. 5 airfields within reach of Hodgenville 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 Hodgenville: Samuels Field (KBRY) 34 km · Godman Army Air Field (KFTK) 42 km · Lebanon Springfield Airport - George Hoerter Field (K6I2) 44 km · Taylor County Airport (KAAS) 45 km
Conditions reported at KEKX describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Hodgenville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Hodgenville, Kentucky
Hodgenville rests in the rolling heart of Kentucky, where the land exhales a quiet, verdant breath. It lies 10.5 miles south-east of Elizabethtown, KY (from Elizabethtown, KY: bearing 142°T), and is situated 10.0 miles south-west of New Haven. The terrain here is a gentle rise and fall, a landscape sculpted not by dramatic peaks but by the patient work of water and time, where fields of corn and soybeans unfurl like stitched quilts under a sky that often weeps with a soft, persistent rain. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries the mingled scent of damp earth and sun-warmed hay, a fragrance that clings to the slow-moving clouds and the weathered clapboard of farmhouses. A subtle haze, born of humidity and the distant murmur of agricultural machinery, often softens the edges of the horizon, giving the world a painterly, almost dreamlike quality. This is a place deeply entwined with the enduring legacy of Abraham Lincoln, whose humble beginnings are a cornerstone of Hodgenville's identity, drawing visitors who trace the footsteps of a nation's turning point. The economy, once reliant on the fertile soil that yields tobacco and bourbon-bound grains, now finds a significant pulse in the heritage tourism that flows through its streets, alongside the continued agricultural endeavors. The Lincoln Homestead State Park, a short drive away, stands as a quiet sentinel to this history, while the town itself, with its modest courthouse square, hums with a rhythm that is both familiar and deeply rooted, a place where the past is not a distant echo but a living presence that shapes the present.
Live animated radar for Hodgenville 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 | Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37.57395°N, 85.739961°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 42748 |
| Area Code | 270 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Hodgenville, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hodgenville, 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 Hodgenville includes coordinates 37.573950°N, 85.739961°W, situated in Larue County. ZIP code 42748. Telephone area code: 270. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
