Shelby, Montana Weather
Shelby, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Shelby, Toole County.
Full aviation weather for Shelby is published on the Shelby Airport (KSBX) page, 4 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. 5 airfields within reach of Shelby 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 Shelby: Valier Airport (K7S7) 37 km · Conrad Airport (KS01) 38 km · Cut Bank International Airport (KCTB) 40 km · Tiber Dam Airport (KB70) 59 km
Conditions reported at KSBX describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Shelby specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Shelby.
About Shelby, Montana
Shelby unfolds across a wide expanse of Montana prairie, where the land stretches out in a broad, silent sweep under a sky that seems to hold all the world's blues. It lies 74.0 miles north-north-west of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 340°T), and is situated 23.2 miles east-south-east of Cut Bank. The landscape here is a study in subtle shifts of color and texture: tawny grasses ripple like a sun-bleached sea, broken only by the occasional stubborn clump of sagebrush or a lone, wind-sculpted cedar. In the distance, the foothills of the distant Rockies hint at a more dramatic geography, their hazy outlines softening the hard edge of the horizon. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a blend of sun-baked earth and the faint, sweet perfume of wildflowers that bloom with fierce, ephemeral beauty in the short summer months. Shelby’s story is etched in the very grain of this land, a testament to the hardy souls who carved a life from its unforgiving beauty. It grew from the railroad, a vital hub that once pulsed with the rhythm of grain shipments and the clatter of livestock. Today, agriculture remains the lifeblood, with vast fields of wheat and barley painting the landscape in shades of gold and green, their bounty often carried eastward on the same iron veins that first brought settlers. A palpable sense of resilience hangs in the air, a quiet pride in enduring the harsh winters and the relentless sun, a character forged in the crucible of the open plains.
Live animated radar for Shelby 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 | Shelby, Toole County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 48.505263°N, 111.856967°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59474 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Shelby, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shelby, 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 Shelby includes coordinates 48.505263°N, 111.856967°W, situated in Toole County. ZIP code 59474. 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.
