St. Charles, Minnesota Weather
St. Charles, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for St. Charles, Winona County.
Full aviation weather for St. Charles is published on the Winona Municipal Airport Max Conrad Field (KONA) page, 31 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. 3 airfields within reach of St. Charles 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 St. Charles: Fillmore County Airport (KFKA) 34 km · Rochester International Airport (KRST) 36 km
Conditions reported at KONA describe the airfield itself. Weather 31 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at St. Charles specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for St. Charles.
About St. Charles, Minnesota
St. Charles rests in a valley where the land begins to lift, a quiet settlement carved into the rolling terrain of southeastern Minnesota. It lies 20.5 miles east of Rochester, MN (from Rochester, MN: bearing 100°T), and is situated 8.3 miles east of Eyota. The earth here is a rich, dark loam, yielding to the persistent touch of agriculture, and the sky feels vast, stretching wide above the gently sloping hills that cradle the town. On a clear afternoon, the light can possess a startling clarity, illuminating the emerald fields and the stately oaks that line the county roads, their leaves rustling with a sound like whispered secrets. The Zumbro River, a silver ribbon, winds its way through the landscape, its banks often fringed with willows, their branches weeping toward the water’s steady flow. The story of St. Charles is a tale of hardy settlers drawn by the fertile ground and the promise of a life built by hand. The local economy, historically rooted in farming and the processing of its bounty, still carries the imprint of those early days, though modern enterprises have found their footing here too, adding their own hum to the town’s quiet industry. You can see it in the careful tending of the fields that surround St. Charles, a legacy passed down through generations, and in the well-maintained buildings that speak of a community that has weathered seasons and times. The air, especially in the early morning, carries the clean, crisp scent of dew-kissed earth and distant woodsmoke, a constant reminder of the land’s enduring presence.
Live animated radar for St. Charles 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 | St. Charles, Winona County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 43.969408°N, 92.064327°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 55972 |
| Area Code | 218 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This St. Charles, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St. Charles, 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 St. Charles includes coordinates 43.969408°N, 92.064327°W, situated in Winona County. ZIP code 55972. 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.
