Altura, Minnesota Weather
Altura, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Altura, Winona County.
Full aviation weather for Altura is published on the Winona Municipal Airport Max Conrad Field (KONA) page, 18 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 Altura 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 Altura: Fillmore County Airport (KFKA) 48 km · Rochester International Airport (KRST) 48 km · La Crosse Regional Airport (KLSE) 59 km
Conditions reported at KONA describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Altura specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Altura.
About Altura, Minnesota
Altura sits where the land begins to hum, a quiet ripple in the broad, rolling landscape of Winona County. It lies 15.0 miles west of Winona, MN (from Winona, MN: bearing 276°T), and is situated 9.4 miles north-east of St. Charles. The fields here are a patchwork of greens and golds, stitched together by the dark threads of tree lines that march across the horizon. When the sun dips low, it washes the gentle slopes in a honeyed light, deepening the shadows that pool in the hollows and giving the very air a palpable, golden weight. Creek beds, dry for much of the year, trace silver veins through the earth, a reminder of the water that once shaped this place. The story of Altura is written in the soil and the careful hands that have worked it for generations. It's a place shaped by the steady pulse of agriculture, where the scent of freshly tilled earth mingles with the distant hum of tractors. This is a landscape that remembers the early settlers, their hopes and their labor etched into the very contours of the land. The local economy, rooted in the bounty of the fields, is a testament to a life lived in close communion with the seasons. There's a quiet pride here, a sense of continuity that can be felt in the unhurried pace of everyday life, a rhythm dictated not by clocks, but by the slow, sure turning of the earth.
Live animated radar for Altura 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 | Altura, Winona County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44.07163°N, 91.939602°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 55910, 55969 |
| Area Code | 218 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Altura, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Altura, 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 Altura includes coordinates 44.071630°N, 91.939602°W, situated in Winona County. ZIP code 55910, 55969. Telephone area code: 218. 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.
