Sanborn, Minnesota Weather
Sanborn, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sanborn, Redwood County.
Full aviation weather for Sanborn is published on the Springfield Municipal Airport (KD42) page, 11 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 Sanborn 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 Sanborn: Windom Municipal Airport (KMWM) 33 km · Redwood Falls Municipal Airport (KRWF) 38 km · Tracy Municipal Airport (KTKC) 38 km · New Ulm Municipal Airport (KULM) 51 km · St James Municipal Airport (KJYG) 52 km
Conditions reported at KD42 describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sanborn specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sanborn.
About Sanborn, Minnesota
Sanborn lies under a vast, often startlingly blue sky, its landscape a quiet testament to the rolling prairie. It lies 24.0 miles west of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 267°T), and is situated 7.8 miles west-south-west of Springfield. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch to horizons that seem impossibly distant, their greens and golds shifting with the season and the angle of the sun. A few sturdy oak trees, their branches gnarled like ancient hands, punctuate the otherwise open terrain, offering scant shade against the summer heat. The air here carries a clean, earthy scent, a blend of tilled soil and distant livestock, and in the evenings, the light takes on a soft, buttery quality as it spills across the land, making the familiar contours of the fields seem newly drawn. Sanborn’s history is deeply rooted in the agricultural bounty of Redwood County, a story told in the sturdy grain elevators that still punctuate the skyline, silent sentinels of a bygone era of prosperity. The town itself was established with the arrival of the railroad, a vital artery that connected this fertile land to wider markets, fostering a local economy built on the cultivation and transport of crops. While the rhythms of farming have always dictated the pace of life in Sanborn, the community has also found its character in quiet resilience and neighborly interdependence, a spirit evident in the well-maintained storefronts and the friendly waves exchanged between passing vehicles on the county roads.
Live animated radar for Sanborn 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 | Sanborn, Redwood County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44.20968°N, 95.128604°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56083 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sanborn, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sanborn, 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 Sanborn includes coordinates 44.209680°N, 95.128604°W, situated in Redwood County. ZIP code 56083. 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.
