Bergen, Minnesota Weather
Bergen, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bergen, Jackson County.
Full aviation weather for Bergen is published on the Jackson Municipal Airport (KMJQ) 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 Bergen 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 Bergen: Windom Municipal Airport (KMWM) 16 km · St James Municipal Airport (KJYG) 41 km · Spirit Lake Municipal Airport (K0F3) 46 km · Estherville Municipal Airport (KEST) 47 km · Springfield Municipal Airport (KD42) 49 km
Conditions reported at KMJQ describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bergen specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bergen.
About Bergen, Minnesota
Bergen, Minnesota, exhales a quiet prairie breath under a sky that stretches wide and deep. It lies 35.0 miles south-south-west of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 210°T), and is situated 8.1 miles south-east of Windom. The land here rolls in soft, patient swells, a green and gold quilt stitched by fields of corn and soybeans that sigh in the summer breeze. The air, especially in the hush of late afternoon, carries the faint, sweet scent of drying grasses and the distant rumble of tractors, a low thrum that underscores the vast stillness. A few scattered farmsteads punctuate the horizon, their silos standing sentinel against the immense blue, and the occasional cluster of trees offers a darker, more intimate shade against the sun-bleached expanse. The light at dusk here is a painter’s dream, bleeding from apricot to amethyst across the western sky, a daily benediction on the enduring fields. The story of Bergen is etched not in stone, but in the rich, dark soil that has sustained generations. It’s a place born of agricultural ambition, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pulse of life, and the local economy still leans heavily on the bounty of the earth. While the days might seem unhurried, there's a deep-rooted pragmatism, a legacy of hard work and self-reliance passed down from the early settlers who carved their livelihoods from this prairie. The few businesses that dot the landscape are more than just shops; they are gathering places, repositories of local lore and the quiet hum of shared experience. Bergen remembers its farming past, and that memory is a quiet strength that continues to shape its character.
Live animated radar for Bergen 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 | Bergen, Jackson County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 43.789957°N, 94.994712°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56101, 56207 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bergen, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bergen, 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 Bergen includes coordinates 43.789957°N, 94.994712°W, situated in Jackson County. ZIP code 56101, 56207. 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.
