Dewey, Montana Weather
Dewey, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Dewey, Beaverhead County.
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About Dewey, Montana
Dewey lies in a broad, sun-bleached expanse where the Beaverhead River, a ribbon of glacial meltwater, carves its patient way through the Wyoming-Montana borderlands. It lies 22.0 miles south-west of Butte, MT (from Butte, MT: bearing 225°T), and is situated 24.6 miles south of Anaconda. The land here is a study in muted tones, ochre and sagebrush greens giving way to the distant, hazy blue of the Tobacco Roots, their peaks often dusted with the season's first snow. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a dry, clean scent of sun-baked earth and resilient grasses, and the light has a particular quality, a softened gold that seems to cling to the weathered fences and the low-slung buildings of the settlement. The sky, an immense dome overhead, feels impossibly vast, a constant reminder of the elemental forces that have shaped this country. The history of Dewey is inextricably tied to the flow of the Beaverhead and the ambitions it carried, first for the trappers and later for the ranchers who sought to tame this rugged country. The economy here, though modest, still echoes the enduring spirit of the land, with cattle ranching forming the backbone of local livelihoods, the rhythm of the seasons dictating the pulse of daily life. You can see it in the quiet diligence of the people, a resilience born of long winters and the vastness of their surroundings. A few scattered homesteads, their roofs glinting like scattered coins in the sun, speak of generations who have worked this soil, their stories etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring character of the place itself.
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| Location | Dewey, Beaverhead County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45.777148°N, 112.855033°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59727 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dewey, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dewey, Montana, 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 Dewey includes coordinates 45.777148°N, 112.855033°W, situated in Beaverhead County. ZIP code 59727. 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. 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.
