Golden City, Missouri Weather
Golden City, Missouri — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Golden City, Barton County.
Full aviation weather for Golden City is published on the Lamar Municipal Airport (KLLU) page, 22 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 Golden 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 Golden City: Kingsley Airfield (KMO9) 23 km · Stockton Municipal Airport (KMO3) 38 km · Mount Vernon Municipal Airport (K2MO) 41 km · Joplin Regional Airport (KJLN) 45 km · El Dorado Springs Memorial Airport (K87K) 52 km
Conditions reported at KLLU describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Golden City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Golden City.
About Golden City, Missouri
Golden City, Missouri, exists as a quiet exhale on the rolling Missouri landscape, where the land itself seems to sigh with the gentle slope of its hills. It lies 31.4 miles north-east of Joplin, MO (from Joplin, MO: bearing 47°T), and is situated 7.7 miles west of Lockwood. The horizon here is not a stark line, but a soft suggestion, blurred by the haze of summer days and the diffused light of autumn afternoons. Fields of grain, gold in the late sun, ripple like a slow-moving sea, punctuated by stands of oak and hickory trees whose leaves murmur secrets on the breeze. The air carries the clean, earthy scent of tilled soil and the faint, sweet perfume of clover from the surrounding pastures, a fragrance that clings to the skin like a memory. The history of Golden City is bound to the fertile earth and the sturdy, practical spirit of its people. Once a bustling hub for agriculture, the land here has long yielded bountiful harvests, a legacy that continues to shape its local economy, with farming and related industries remaining its backbone. The memory of earlier times, when the pace was perhaps a little faster, still echoes in the sturdy architecture of its older buildings, a quiet testament to generations who worked this soil. While the grand pronouncements of history may have passed Golden City by, its distinctive character is found in the unpretentious beauty of its everyday life, the steady hum of tractors in the distance, and the enduring strength of community.
Live animated radar for Golden 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.
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| Location | Golden City, Barton County, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 37.393105°N, 94.09383°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 64748 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Golden City, Missouri Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Golden City, Missouri, 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 Golden City includes coordinates 37.393105°N, 94.093830°W, situated in Barton County. ZIP code 64748. Telephone area code: 816. 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.
