Union City, Michigan Weather
Union City, Michigan — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Union City, Branch County.
Full aviation weather for Union City is published on the Branch County Memorial Airport (KOEB) page, 16 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 Union City 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 Union City: Brooks Field (KRMY) 25 km · Battle Creek Executive Airport at Kellogg Field (KBTL) 28 km · Kirsch Municipal Airport (KIRS) 38 km · Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport (KAZO) 39 km · Three Rivers Municipal Dr Haines Airport (KHAI) 40 km
Conditions reported at KOEB describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Union City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Union City.
About Union City, Michigan
Union City rests in a land of gentle swells and broad horizons, where fields of corn and soybeans stretch towards a sky that often holds a painter's palette of bruised purples and soft oranges as the sun dips below the western edge. It lies 17.7 miles south of Battle Creek, MI (from Battle Creek, MI: bearing 173°T), and is situated 5.3 miles east-south-east of Athens. The St. Joseph River, a silver ribbon, threads its way through the landscape, its banks softened by willows and the occasional stand of sturdy oak, offering a quiet counterpoint to the agricultural expanse. The air here, especially in the early morning, carries a crisp, clean scent, a promise of dew-laden grass and the quiet industry of the land waking to a new day. Buildings, mostly of brick and weathered wood, stand in tidy rows, their windows reflecting the vastness of the Michigan sky. The history of Union City is entwined with the fertile soil and the water that nourished it, a narrative of farmers and families who shaped this corner of Branch County. Early settlers recognized the strategic importance of the river, establishing mills and a crossroads that grew into the community. The local economy, still deeply rooted in agriculture, sees the steady pulse of planting and harvest dictating the rhythm of life, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels to the bounty of the season. While not a hub of booming industry, Union City possesses a quiet resilience, a character forged by generations who understood the value of hard work and neighborly support, a spirit that still flickers in the friendly waves exchanged between passing cars and the shared pride in the town's enduring simplicity.
Live animated radar for Union City 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 | Union City, Branch County, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 42.066714°N, 85.136088°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 49094 |
| Area Code | 269 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Union City, Michigan Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Union City, Michigan, 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 Union City includes coordinates 42.066714°N, 85.136088°W, situated in Branch County. ZIP code 49094. Telephone area code: 269. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/Detroit).
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.
