Arcadia, Louisiana Weather
Arcadia, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Arcadia, Bienville Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Arcadia. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Arcadia is published on the Arcadia Bienville Parish Airport (K5F0) page, 4 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 Arcadia 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 Arcadia: Homer Municipal Airport (K5F4) 28 km · Ruston Regional Airport (KRSN) 31 km · Minden Airport (KMNE) 37 km · Jonesboro Airport (KF88) 42 km · Union Parish Airport (KF87) 58 km
Conditions reported at K5F0 describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Arcadia specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Arcadia.
About Arcadia, Louisiana
Arcadia breathes with the slow, steady pulse of North Louisiana, a place where the land itself seems to hold its breath under the vast, often humid, sky. It lies 46.7 miles west of Monroe, LA (from Monroe, LA: bearing 274°T), and is situated 7.7 miles west of Simsboro. Rolling hills, softened by the persistent green of pine and hardwood forests, give way to the flatter, more open stretches where the earth yields its bounty. The air, especially in the early morning before the sun climbs too high, carries the damp, earthy scent of rich soil and the faint, sweet perfume of wildflowers that dot the verges of the country roads. Sunlight here has a particular quality, filtering through the dense canopy in shimmering shafts, painting transient mosaics on the leaf-strewn ground, and at dusk, it bleeds across the horizon in hues of bruised plum and molten gold, a silent benediction over the quiet landscape. The history of Arcadia is as deeply rooted as the ancient oaks that stand sentinel in its older neighborhoods, a testament to generations who have worked this land. Once a hub for timber and agriculture, its economy still draws strength from the fertile ground, with cattle ranches and fields of cotton and soybeans defining the surrounding countryside. The Bienville Parish Courthouse, a stately structure that presides over the town square, hints at a past steeped in county governance and community life. Though the pace of life in Arcadia is unhurried, there's a palpable sense of continuity, a quiet pride in the enduring spirit of its people and the enduring character of this corner of Louisiana, a place that remains, fundamentally, a product of its soil and its skies.
Live animated radar for Arcadia 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 | Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 32.549041°N, 92.920158°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71001 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Arcadia, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Arcadia, Louisiana, 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 Arcadia includes coordinates 32.549041°N, 92.920158°W, situated in Bienville Parish. ZIP code 71001. Telephone area code: 318. 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.
