Belknap, Montana Weather
Belknap, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Belknap, Sanders County.
Full aviation weather for Belknap is published on the Thompson Falls Airport (KTHM) page, 14 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. 4 airfields within reach of Belknap 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 Belknap: Plains Airport (KS34) 43 km · Shoshone County Airport (KS83) 60 km · Hot Springs Airport (KS09) 60 km
Conditions reported at KTHM describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Belknap specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Belknap.
About Belknap, Montana
Belknap sits where the Clark Fork River begins to widen, its broad shoulders pushing against the flanks of mountains that rise in jagged, timbered waves toward a sky that often holds a bruised, magnificent twilight. It lies 62.7 miles south-west of Kalispell, MT (from Kalispell, MT: bearing 234°T), and is situated 5.4 miles north-north-west of Thompson Falls. The land here is a study in deep greens and shadowed blues, the river a silken ribbon unwinding through a valley floor that, in places, flattens into meadows where the wind whispers through tall grasses. The air itself carries a clean, sharp scent of pine and damp earth, a constant reminder of the wild country that presses in on all sides, a quiet dominion of granite and evergreen. There’s a stillness to Belknap, a patience born of enduring seasons, where the slow crawl of the sun across the sky dictates the rhythm of the day. This stretch of Montana's valley floor was once a different kind of place, shaped by the relentless pursuit of silver and other buried riches, the echoes of pickaxes and straining carts still seeming to resonate in the quiet hum of the present. The local economy, now more reliant on the bounty of the land and the steady flow of the river, retains a grounded practicality, a connection to the earth that feels ancient. The Clark Fork, a lifeblood for generations, still carries the sediment of distant peaks and the memory of its own powerful journey, a constant, murmuring presence in the life of Belknap. The few structures that comprise Belknap seem to hold their ground with a quiet resilience, weathered by wind and sun, bearing witness to the enduring spirit of those who have called this place home.
Live animated radar for Belknap 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 | Belknap, Sanders County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 47.662157°N, 115.408769°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59873 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Belknap, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Belknap, 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 Belknap includes coordinates 47.662157°N, 115.408769°W, situated in Sanders County. ZIP code 59873. 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.
