Essex, Montana Weather
Essex, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Essex, Flathead County.
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About Essex, Montana
Essex lies in the embrace of the Flathead National Forest, a place where the towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains begin their dramatic descent towards the broad expanse of Flathead Lake. It lies 32.7 miles east of Kalispell, MT (from Kalispell, MT: bearing 80°T), and is situated 26.9 miles east-south-east of Columbia Falls. The air here carries the sharp, clean scent of pine needles and damp earth, a constant reminder of the wildness that presses in from all sides. The landscape is a rugged, untamed beauty, a rough-hewn mosaic of dense evergreen forests, steep slopes that catch the afternoon sun, and the glinting, restless surface of the Flathead River, which carves its way through the valley floor. Even in the deepest summer, the shadows here hold a cool, persistent memory of winter, and the light, particularly as evening approaches, washes the mountainsides in hues of bruised purple and molten gold. This stretch of Montana has long been a passage, a place where the land itself seems to whisper of journeys past and present. Before the railroad, it was a route for trappers and explorers, and later, the Great Northern Railway's passage through the Marias Pass brought a surge of life, establishing Essex as a vital stop. The economy here has always been tied to the land and the rails, a delicate balance between the logging industry that once dominated and the burgeoning tourism drawn by the pristine natural beauty. It’s a place where the silence is profound, broken only by the rumble of a distant train or the cry of a hawk circling overhead, a quiet testament to a simpler, more elemental existence.
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| Location | Essex, Flathead County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 48.278018°N, 113.612604°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59916 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Essex, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Essex, 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 Essex includes coordinates 48.278018°N, 113.612604°W, situated in Flathead County. ZIP code 59916. 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.
