St. Martinville, Louisiana Weather
St. Martinville, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near St. Martinville. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for St. Martinville is published on the Acadiana Regional Airport (KARA) page, 11 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 St. Martinville 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. Martinville: Lafayette Regional Airport (KLFT) 17 km · Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport (KIYA) 29 km · Le Maire Memorial Airport (K2R1) 30 km · St Landry Parish Ahart Field (KOPL) 54 km
Conditions reported at KARA describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at St. Martinville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About St. Martinville, Louisiana
St. Martinville, Louisiana, hums with a quiet grace along the banks of the languid Bayou Teche. It lies 8.5 miles north of New Iberia, LA (from New Iberia, LA: bearing 354°T), and is situated 9.5 miles east of Youngsville. The air here, thick with the scent of magnolias and damp earth, often carries the murmur of cicadas and the distant, melancholic cry of a lone egret. Cypress trees, draped in Spanish moss like aged, forgotten shawls, stand sentinel over the slow-moving water, their roots gripping the dark, alluvial soil. The light at dusk often paints the sky in hues of bruised plum and faded rose, a spectacle that seems to settle over the town with a sigh of contentment. This is a place where history flows as steadily as the bayou, a parish founded by Acadian exiles who found refuge in this verdant landscape. The legacy of those early settlers is deeply etched into the character of St. Martinville, a town that once served as a vital hub for the sugar cane industry. Today, the echoes of that past are felt in the preservation of its charming Creole architecture and the enduring traditions of Cajun culture. The economy, while diversified, still retains a connection to the land, with agriculture playing a significant role, and the bayou itself remains a lifeblood, offering both sustenance and recreation, a constant reminder of the intimate relationship between the people and their watery domain.
Live animated radar for St. Martinville 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. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.125201°N, 91.83345°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70582 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This St. Martinville, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St. Martinville, 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. Martinville includes coordinates 30.125201°N, 91.833450°W, situated in St. Martin Parish. ZIP code 70582. 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.
