Ashland, Montana Weather
Ashland, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ashland, Rosebud County.
Full aviation weather for Ashland is published on the Saint Labre Mission Airport (K3U4) page, 1 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. 2 airfields within reach of Ashland 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 Ashland: Colstrip Airport (KM46) 44 km
Conditions reported at K3U4 describe the airfield itself. Weather 1 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ashland specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ashland.
About Ashland, Montana
Ashland breathes the wide, dry air of eastern Montana, a place where the land unfurls in broad, sun-baked sweeps of sagebrush and hardy grasses. It lies 97.6 miles north-north-west of Gillette, WY (from Gillette, WY: bearing 338°T), and is situated 19.2 miles east of Lame Deer. The horizon stretches with an unyielding clarity, broken only by the subtle rise and fall of coulees and the distant, hazy blue of the Wolf Mountains to the west. Here, the sky is a dominion unto itself, a vast canvas painted with the fiery hues of dawn and the deep, star-pricked velvet of night. The very air carries the scent of dust and sun-warmed earth, a constant reminder of the elemental forces that shape this terrain, and the profound silence that can descend with the settling sun, broken only by the whisper of wind through the sparse vegetation. The history of Ashland is a story etched in the resilience of those who have sought a life here, a narrative woven from the threads of ranching and the enduring spirit of those who work the land. For generations, cattle have grazed these rolling hills, their presence a quiet testament to the agricultural heart of the region. The economy, tied closely to the fortunes of the rancher and the farmer, moves at a measured pace, reflecting the vastness of the landscape and the deep roots of its inhabitants. Ashland itself, a collection of buildings that seem to hold their breath against the immense sky, carries a character of quiet determination, a place where community is not a grand pronouncement but a series of shared glances and familiar faces seen against the backdrop of an unchanging, beautiful land.
Live animated radar for Ashland 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 | Ashland, Rosebud County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45.594444°N, 106.270848°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59003, 59004 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ashland, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ashland, Montana, 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 Ashland includes coordinates 45.594444°N, 106.270848°W, situated in Rosebud County. ZIP code 59003, 59004. Telephone area code: 406. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
