Elliston, Montana Weather
Elliston, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Elliston, Powell County.
Full aviation weather for Elliston is published on the Deer Lodge City County Airport (K38S) page, 32 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 Elliston 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 Elliston: Helena Regional Airport (KHLN) 35 km · Lincoln Airport (KS69) 47 km · Bowman Field (K3U3) 56 km
Conditions reported at K38S describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Elliston specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Elliston.
About Elliston, Montana
Elliston rests in a broad valley, cradled by the high, rugged shoulders of the Continental Divide. It lies 18.9 miles west of Helena, MT (from Helena, MT: bearing 264°T), and is situated 18.9 miles west-south-west of Helena Valley West Central. The landscape here is a study in austere beauty, where the sun, when it breaks free of the often-brooding Montana sky, casts long, sharp shadows across the rolling hills and the scattered stands of pine and aspen. The air carries the clean, crisp scent of sagebrush and damp earth, a constant reminder of the wildness that presses in from all sides. A faint murmur of water, the Ruby River, threads its way through the valley floor, its banks a ribbon of green against the dun-colored earth, reflecting the vast, open sky in its slow, deliberate flow. The history of Elliston is a quiet one, written not in grand pronouncements but in the persistent hum of its local economy, largely tied to the fertile valley floor and the livestock that graze its pastures. Ranching is the bedrock, a way of life passed down through generations, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the work and the community’s fortunes. There’s a sense of enduring resilience here, a knowing glance exchanged between neighbors who understand the vagaries of weather and the quiet satisfaction of a hard day’s labor. Though the whispers of mining once touched this place, it is the land itself, and the enduring spirit of those who tend it, that truly defines Elliston.
Live animated radar for Elliston 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 | Elliston, Powell County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 46.562155°N, 112.430856°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59728 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Elliston, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Elliston, 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 Elliston includes coordinates 46.562155°N, 112.430856°W, situated in Powell County. ZIP code 59728. 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.
