Skowhegan, Maine Weather
Skowhegan, Maine — 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 Skowhegan, Somerset County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Skowhegan. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Skowhegan is published on the Central Maine/Norridgewock Airport (KOWK) page, 13 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. 6 airfields within reach of Skowhegan 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 Skowhegan: Waterville Robert Lafleur Airport (KWVL) 26 km · Dexter Regional Airport (K1B0) 46 km · Augusta State Airport (KAUG) 50 km · Bowman Field (KB10) 52 km · Sugarloaf Regional Airport (KB21) 53 km
Conditions reported at KOWK describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Skowhegan specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Skowhegan.
About Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan rests on the banks of the Kennebec River, a wide, muscular artery that has shaped its very being. It lies 46.2 miles west of Bangor, ME (from Bangor, ME: bearing 267°T), and is situated 8.2 miles east-south-east of Madison. The terrain here is a gentle rise and fall, not dramatic, but holding the deep, dark soil of central Maine, a place where the air smells of pine needles and the distant promise of rain. The houses, many of them clapboard and weathered shingles, huddle together as if for warmth, their porches offering quiet observation posts for the slow turning of the days. The light, especially in late afternoon, casts long, slanted shadows that stretch across lawns and pool in the hollows of the tree-lined streets, lending a certain gravitas to the ordinary. Even the wind here seems to carry a particular weight, a murmur of the vast, wild country that presses in from all sides. This is a place built on the enduring strength of the river and the land, its history inextricably linked to the industries that once thrived along its shores. For generations, logging and paper mills were the lifeblood of Skowhegan, their rhythmic hum a constant soundtrack to the lives of its people. Though those days have largely passed, the ghost of that industrial past still lingers, a tangible presence in the sturdy brick buildings that line the downtown and the memory of the workers who powered them. Today, agriculture reasserts its claim, with farms spreading out into the surrounding countryside, their fields a patchwork of greens and golds under the broad Maine sky, a reminder of the earth's persistent bounty and the quiet resilience of those who tend it.
Live animated radar for Skowhegan 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 | Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine |
| Coordinates | 44.765062°N, 69.719218°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time |
| ZIP Code(s) | 04976 |
| Area Code | 207 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Skowhegan, Maine Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Skowhegan, Maine, 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 Skowhegan includes coordinates 44.765062°N, 69.719218°W, situated in Somerset County. ZIP code 04976. Telephone area code: 207. Timezone: Eastern Time.
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.
