Baldwin, Louisiana Weather
Baldwin, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Baldwin, St. Mary Parish.
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About Baldwin, Louisiana
Baldwin breathes with the humid, verdant spirit of the Louisiana bayou country, a place where the land itself seems to exhale a perpetual mist. It lies 20.0 miles south-east of New Iberia, LA (from New Iberia, LA: bearing 125°T), and is situated 3.9 miles north-west of Franklin. Ancient live oaks, their limbs draped with Spanish moss like somber shawls, stand sentinel over the flat terrain, their roots a tangled testament to centuries of slow growth. The air, thick and syrupy, carries the faint, earthy scent of decaying cypress and the distant, mournful cry of a lone heron. Water is the dominant character here, not in grand, sweeping rivers, but in the quiet, inky veins of bayous that snake through the landscape, reflecting the dense green of the surrounding vegetation in their still surfaces. The light, even at midday, feels filtered, softened by the canopy, and at dusk, it bleeds into the sky in bruised purples and oranges, a painterly farewell to the day. The history of Baldwin is as intertwined with the flow of water as the cypress knees are with the bayou floor. Once a vital stopping point for steamboats navigating the Atchafalaya Basin, its fortunes ebbed and flowed with the changing currents of transportation and trade. The local economy, historically tethered to the bounty of the waterways and the fertile soil, still finds sustenance in agriculture, with sugarcane fields stretching out like emerald carpets under the wide sky. Though the grand days of riverboat commerce have receded, a quiet resilience persists in Baldwin, a recognition of the land’s enduring generosity and the deep roots of its people. The distinctive charm of this place lies in its unhurried pace, a gentle cadence that allows for contemplation of the slow, inexorable march of time, marked not by clocks but by the subtle shifts of seasons and the persistent whisper of the wind through the moss-laden trees.
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| Location | Baldwin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.837984°N, 91.544279°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70514 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Baldwin, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Baldwin, Louisiana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Baldwin includes coordinates 29.837984°N, 91.544279°W, situated in St. Mary Parish. ZIP code 70514. Telephone area code: 985. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
