Bolivar, Mississippi — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Bolivar, Bolivar County.
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Bolivar sits low in the Mississippi Delta, where the land stretches flat and endless, a canvas of rich, dark earth that seems to absorb the sky. It lies 17.3 miles north of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 2°T), and is situated 2.6 miles west-north-west of Benoit. The air here hangs heavy, humid and thick with the scent of damp soil and the distant perfume of cotton blossoms, especially in the languid embrace of a summer afternoon. Great, ancient oaks, their limbs draped with Spanish moss like tattered grey shrouds, stand as stoic sentinels along the infrequent roads, their roots gripping the alluvial plain with a tenacity born of centuries. The light at dusk is a profound, bruised purple, bleeding into the horizon, making the vast fields of ripening corn and soybeans glow with an almost otherworldly luminescence before succumbing to the profound, star-dusted darkness of the rural night. The history of Bolivar is inextricably linked to the fertile soil that defines its existence, a legacy of agriculture that has shaped its economy and its people for generations. Cotton, of course, was king for so long, its white harvest once the lifeblood of this place, and though its dominance has waned, the spirit of the agrarian life still pulses. Today, soybeans and rice share the fertile ground, their emerald and golden hues a familiar sight under the wide, often cloud-streaked sky. The quietude of Bolivar is not an absence of life, but a different kind of rhythm, one dictated by the turning of seasons and the steady, persistent work of the land, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who have called this Mississippi soil home.
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| Location | Bolivar, Bolivar County, Mississippi |
| Coordinates | 33.659834°N, 91.053164°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 38725 |
| Area Code | 662 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bolivar, Mississippi, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Bolivar includes coordinates 33.659834°N, 91.053164°W, situated in Bolivar County. ZIP code 38725. Telephone area code: 662. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.