Grand Point, Louisiana Weather
Grand Point, 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 Grand Point, St. James Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Grand Point. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Grand Point is published on the Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (KAPS) page, 17 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. 4 airfields within reach of Grand Point 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 Grand Point: Louisiana Regional Airport (KREG) 22 km · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) 48 km · Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) 56 km
Conditions reported at KAPS describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Grand Point specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Grand Point.
About Grand Point, Louisiana
Grand Point unfolds along the languid curves of a Louisiana waterway, where the air hangs thick with the scent of damp earth and unseen blossoms. It lies 16.3 miles west of Laplace, LA (from Laplace, LA: bearing 269°T), and is situated 3.6 miles west-north-west of Lutcher. Cypress trees, ancient sentinels draped in Spanish moss, stand stoic at the water's edge, their gnarled roots grasping the silty banks. The landscape here is a patient, breathing thing, a low-lying realm where the sky feels vast and the land yields softly to the insistent caress of the river. Sunlight, when it breaks through the humid haze, paints the water in shifting mosaics of gold and emerald, a fleeting beauty that mirrors the ephemeral nature of the mist that often shrouds the bayous at dawn. The history of Grand Point is inextricably tied to the fertile alluvial plains it occupies, a place where sugarcane once dominated the horizon and the echoes of generations of hardworking families still linger. Its economy, once driven by the sugar plantations and the river traffic that carried their bounty, has found new currents, with a resilient spirit that embraces both tradition and innovation. While no grand monuments mark its passage, a quiet dignity pervades Grand Point, a sense of enduring connection to the land and the water that have shaped its destiny. This is a place where time seems to flow with a gentler, more deliberate cadence, marked by the slow drift of barges and the hushed conversations of neighbors under the shade of ancient oaks.
Live animated radar for Grand Point 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 | Grand Point, St. James Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.061312°N, 90.753426°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70763 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Grand Point, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Grand Point, 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 Grand Point includes coordinates 30.061312°N, 90.753426°W, situated in St. James Parish. ZIP code 70763. 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. 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.
