Bainville, Montana Weather
Bainville, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bainville, Roosevelt County.
Full aviation weather for Bainville is published on the Big Sky Field (KS85) page, 21 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 Bainville 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 Bainville: Williston Basin International Airport (KXWA) 37 km · Sidney - Richland Regional Airport (KSDY) 48 km
Conditions reported at KS85 describe the airfield itself. Weather 21 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bainville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bainville.
About Bainville, Montana
Bainville sits on a high, wide prairie, a place where the sky seems to stretch forever, a vast, blue canvas brushed with the wisps of clouds. It lies 27.9 miles west of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 269°T), and is situated 13.6 miles east of Culbertson. The land here rolls gently, a sea of golden grasses in the summer that turns to a pale, straw-like hue under the crisp autumn air, broken only by the occasional cluster of hardy trees clinging to the banks of ephemeral creeks. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a perfume of earth and sun, and in the quiet evenings, a profound stillness settles, interrupted only by the distant lowing of cattle or the sigh of the wind through the sparse vegetation. The horizon is a sharp, clean line, a constant reminder of the immense, untamed beauty of this northern Montana expanse, where the light at dusk bleeds across the land in hues of rose and violet, painting the world in ephemeral glory. The story of Bainville is one of hardy pioneers and the enduring spirit of agriculture, a legacy etched into the very grain of this community. It grew from the fertile soil, its economy long tethered to the cultivation of wheat and the raising of livestock, a life dictated by the seasons and the generous, sometimes unforgiving, nature of the plains. Railroad tracks, now weathered and quiet, once sang with the rumble of freight cars carrying the bounty of the land to distant markets, a lifeline that shaped the fortunes of early settlers. Though larger settlements may boast more bustling thoroughfares, Bainville retains a character of quiet resilience, a place where neighbors know each other's names and the pace of life flows with the steady, unhurried rhythm of the land itself.
Live animated radar for Bainville 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 | Bainville, Roosevelt County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 48.140021°N, 104.22272°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59212 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bainville, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bainville, 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 Bainville includes coordinates 48.140021°N, 104.222720°W, situated in Roosevelt County. ZIP code 59212. 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.
