Mathews, Louisiana Weather
Mathews, 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 Mathews, Lafourche Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Mathews. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Mathews is published on the Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) 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. 5 airfields within reach of Mathews 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 Mathews: South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport (KGAO) 39 km · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) 44 km · Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (KAPS) 45 km · New Orleans NAS JRB/Alvin Callender Field (KNBG) 52 km
Conditions reported at KHUM describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mathews specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mathews.
About Mathews, Louisiana
Mathews lies low and wide along the bayous, where the humid air, thick with the scent of salt and marsh grass, hangs heavy as a summer shroud. It lies 12.1 miles east-north-east of Houma, LA (from Houma, LA: bearing 59°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east-north-east of Bayou Blue. The landscape here is a study in subtle gradients: flat, yes, but with a constant, almost imperceptible shift between water and land, a constant negotiation of the tides. Cypress trees, their knees like ancient knuckles breaking the surface, guard the waterways, their Spanish moss beards trailing like ghosts in the breeze. The sun, when it breaks through the haze, casts a molten gold light that seems to pool in the shallow ditches and glint off the slick, dark mud of the banks. This is a place shaped by water and toil, where the rhythm of the shrimp boats dictates the pulse of life. The economy of Mathews has long been tied to the bounty of the Gulf, a legacy passed down through generations of fishermen who know the brackish depths and their secrets. Old wooden piers, weathered to a silver-grey, jut out into the murky water, remnants of a past where processing plants hummed with activity. Now, the fishing is more artisanal, the catch smaller but no less vital. The character of Mathews is one of quiet resilience, a community that understands the ebb and flow of fortune, much like the tides that lap at its shores, a constant reminder of the powerful, indifferent forces that shape this coastal fringe.
Live animated radar for Mathews 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 | Mathews, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.686323°N, 90.546752°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70394, 70375 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mathews, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mathews, 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 Mathews includes coordinates 29.686323°N, 90.546752°W, situated in Lafourche Parish. ZIP code 70394, 70375. 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.
