Helena West Side, Montana Weather
Helena West Side, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Helena West Side, Lewis and Clark County.
Full aviation weather for Helena West Side is published on the Helena Regional Airport (KHLN) page, 9 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 Helena West Side 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 Helena West Side: Townsend Airport (K8U8) 56 km · Deer Lodge City County Airport (K38S) 56 km · Lincoln Airport (KS69) 58 km
Conditions reported at KHLN describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Helena West Side specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Helena West Side.
About Helena West Side, Montana
Helena West Side sprawls across a broad, sun-drenched valley floor, a place where the sky feels impossibly vast and the mountains, the distant sentinels of the Continental Divide, loom with a quiet, enduring majesty. It lies 3.1 miles west of Helena, MT (from Helena, MT: bearing 277°T), and is situated 8.7 miles west of Helena Valley Southeast. Rolling hills, cloaked in sagebrush and hardy grasses that turn a burnished gold under the late afternoon sun, give way to steeper, pine-studded slopes as you move west. The air here carries the clean, sharp scent of those evergreens, especially after a brief, summer rain shower, and the distant murmur of the Prickly Pear Creek offers a constant, gentle soundtrack to the landscape. This is a country of wide horizons, where the light shifts with a breathtaking, almost painterly quality, from the crisp blues of morning to the deep, bruised purples of twilight, painting the rugged terrain in ever-changing hues. The story of Helena West Side is deeply intertwined with the boom and bust of Montana's mining past, a history that lingers in the very bones of the land, though the present economy has diversified. While the echoes of prospectors and the clang of pickaxes are long gone, the spirit of enterprise persists, now focused on agriculture, the service industry, and a growing appreciation for the natural beauty that draws visitors and residents alike. The area is a vital part of Helena's broader identity, a place where families have put down roots for generations, their lives shaped by the agricultural rhythms of the valley and the enduring allure of the surrounding wilderness. It’s a locale that doesn't shout its significance, but rather whispers it through the rustle of wind in the cottonwoods and the steady, determined pulse of everyday life.
Live animated radar for Helena West Side 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 | Helena West Side, Lewis and Clark County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 46.598139°N, 112.101243°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59601, 59636 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Helena West Side, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Helena West Side, 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 Helena West Side includes coordinates 46.598139°N, 112.101243°W, situated in Lewis and Clark County. ZIP code 59601, 59636. 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.
