Albert Lea, Minnesota Weather
Albert Lea, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Albert Lea, Freeborn County.
Full aviation weather for Albert Lea is published on the Albert Lea Municipal Airport (KAEL) page, 4 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 Albert Lea 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 Albert Lea: Lake Mills Municipal Airport (K0Y6) 29 km · Wells Municipal Airport (K68Y) 34 km · Austin Municipal Airport (KAUM) 35 km · Waseca Municipal Airport (KACQ) 50 km · Forest City Municipal Airport (KFXY) 50 km
Conditions reported at KAEL describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Albert Lea specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Albert Lea, Minnesota
Albert Lea breathes the wide, flat expanse of southern Minnesota, a place where the horizon stretches with an almost audacious indifference. It lies 19.7 miles west of Austin, MN (from Austin, MN: bearing 266°T), and is situated 8.2 miles south-south-west of Clarks Grove. The land here is a deep, fertile loam, smoothed by ancient glaciers into a gentle, rolling terrain that lends itself to the cultivation of crops and the open-hearted gaze of the sky. Twin Lakes, Fountain Lake to the north and Albert Lea Lake to the south, lie like placid eyes, reflecting the vast, ever-changing canvas of the heavens and offering a cool respite in the heat of summer. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a crispness, a promise of the day's light that seems to gleam off the dew-laden fields. The story of Albert Lea is one of agricultural ambition and industrious spirit, a legacy born from the rich prairie soil that continues to define its economic heart. For generations, the land has yielded its bounty, feeding families and fueling a robust agricultural economy that still forms the bedrock of the community. Beyond the fields, the city has also known the hum of manufacturing, its factories once a vital part of the regional industrial landscape. Now, as the world shifts, Albert Lea navigates its present with a resilient pragmatism, its people drawing strength from the enduring connection to the land and the quiet camaraderie forged in shared history. The presence of the historic Freeborn County Courthouse, a stately brick edifice, anchors the downtown, a silent sentinel to the enduring civic life of Albert Lea.
Live animated radar for Albert Lea 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.
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| Location | Albert Lea, Freeborn County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 43.648013°N, 93.368266°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56007 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Albert Lea, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Albert Lea, Minnesota, 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 Albert Lea includes coordinates 43.648013°N, 93.368266°W, situated in Freeborn County. ZIP code 56007. Telephone area code: 320. 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.
