Harrison, Montana Weather
Harrison, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Harrison, Madison County.
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About Harrison, Montana
Harrison rests in a wide valley where the Ruby River, a silver ribbon unspooling through the landscape, lends its murmur to the stillness. It lies 36.1 miles west of Bozeman, MT (from Bozeman, MT: bearing 273°T), and is situated 17.4 miles south-west of Three Forks. The surrounding mountains, their slopes a mosaic of sagebrush, pine, and the stark, sun-bleached bone of ancient rock, rise with a quiet authority, their peaks often dusted with snow even as summer’s warmth settles over the valley floor. The air here carries a crispness, a scent of dry earth and distant evergreen, and in the late afternoon, the light takes on a molten quality, transforming the ordinary contours of the land into something resonant and profound. The houses of Harrison, modest and weathered, seem to anchor themselves against the immensity of the sky, each one a small, human punctuation mark within the vastness. The history of Harrison is intrinsically linked to the bounty and the challenges of this northern Montana terrain. Once a hub for the region's agricultural endeavors, its economy now leans more towards the quiet pursuits of ranching and the steady, understated tourism drawn by the area's natural beauty and the promise of clear, starlit nights. Old fences, their wood bleached and bowed, trace the boundaries of fields that have seen generations of labor, a silent testament to the persistence of those who first settled here. The Ruby River itself, a vital artery for the local ecosystem, also serves as a quiet reminder of the forces that shaped this place, a constant, flowing presence that has witnessed the ebb and flow of human endeavor.
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| Location | Harrison, Madison County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45.700761°N, 111.786369°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59735 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Harrison, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Harrison, 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 Harrison includes coordinates 45.700761°N, 111.786369°W, situated in Madison County. ZIP code 59735. 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.
