St. James, Louisiana Weather
St. James, 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 St. James, St. James Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near St. James. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for St. James is published on the Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (KAPS) page, 22 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 St. James 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 St. James: Louisiana Regional Airport (KREG) 22 km · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) 51 km · Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) 52 km
Conditions reported at KAPS describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at St. James specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for St. James.
About St. James, Louisiana
St. James unfolds under a sky that often hangs heavy with humidity, a place where the earth yields its bounty with a thick, green embrace. It lies 18.9 miles west of Laplace, LA (from Laplace, LA: bearing 260°T), and is situated 9.3 miles north of Chackbay. The landscape here is a low-lying, fertile expanse, crisscrossed by the slow, brown arteries of bayous and drainage canals that feed the sugarcane fields stretching to the horizon. These fields, a sea of emerald in the summer and a rustling gold in the fall, are the dominant feature, punctuated by the occasional cluster of cypress trees draped in Spanish moss, their roots submerged in the shallow, dark water. The air itself carries a certain weight, thick with the scent of damp earth and the distant, sweet perfume of ripening cane. This is a stretch of Louisiana that has long understood the rhythm of the seasons and the demands of the land. St. James Parish, and St. James itself, has carved its identity from the rich alluvial soil, its economy historically tied to the vast sugarcane plantations that once dominated the region. Even today, the processing of this sweet crop remains a significant part of the local character, the hum of machinery a low thrum beneath the quiet daily life. The history here is layered, from the early French colonial presence to the enduring cultural traditions that echo in the local dialect and the Sunday gatherings. It is a place where the past feels present, not in grand monuments, but in the enduring landscape and the deep-rooted connection of its people to the fertile ground they inhabit.
Live animated radar for St. James 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 | St. James, St. James Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.017929°N, 90.791323°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70723, 70086 |
| Area Code | 985, 504 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This St. James, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St. James, 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 St. James includes coordinates 30.017929°N, 90.791323°W, situated in St. James Parish. ZIP code 70723, 70086. Telephone area code: 985, 504. 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.
