Garden City, Minnesota Weather
Garden City, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Garden City, Blue Earth County.
Full aviation weather for Garden City is published on the Mankato Regional Airport (KMKT) page, 28 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 Garden 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 Garden City: St James Municipal Airport (KJYG) 32 km · New Ulm Municipal Airport (KULM) 40 km · Wells Municipal Airport (K68Y) 46 km · Le Sueur Municipal Airport (K12Y) 48 km · Waseca Municipal Airport (KACQ) 49 km
Conditions reported at KMKT describe the airfield itself. Weather 28 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Garden City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Garden City.
About Garden City, Minnesota
Garden City unfolds across a landscape of gentle, fertile plains, where the rich, dark soil, a legacy of ancient glaciers, cradles fields of corn and soybeans that stretch to the horizon under an immense, often startlingly blue sky. It lies 11.5 miles south-west of Mankato, MN (from Mankato, MN: bearing 226°T), and is situated 4.9 miles south-south-east of Lake Crystal. The terrain here is not dramatic, but possesses a quiet, rolling character, broken by the occasional stand of trees that signal a farmstead or a winding waterway, reflecting the vastness of the heavens in their slow, deliberate currents. In the early morning, a soft, pearly mist often clings to the low-lying areas, lending an ethereal quality to the already serene setting, a stillness that promises a day of steady, grounded labor. The history of Garden City is intertwined with the agricultural bounty of this region, a place where families have worked the land for generations, their lives marked by the turning of seasons and the planting and harvesting cycles. The local economy, while rooted in farming, has also seen the quiet development of small businesses that serve the surrounding rural communities, fostering a sense of self-reliance and neighborly interdependence. One might find the subtle scent of freshly turned earth mingling with the distant hum of machinery, a testament to the enduring spirit of this place, where the past is not forgotten but lives on in the continued cultivation of the earth and the simple, honest rhythm of daily life.
Live animated radar for Garden 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 | Garden City, Blue Earth County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44.047186°N, 94.164958°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56034 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Garden City, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Garden City, 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 Garden City includes coordinates 44.047186°N, 94.164958°W, situated in Blue Earth County. ZIP code 56034. 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.
