Whitehall, Montana Weather
Whitehall, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Whitehall, Jefferson County.
Full aviation weather for Whitehall is published on the Bert Mooney Airport (KBTM) 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. 3 airfields within reach of Whitehall 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 Whitehall: Ruby Valley Field (KRVF) 41 km · Three Forks Airport (K9S5) 41 km
Conditions reported at KBTM describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Whitehall specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Whitehall, Montana
Whitehall rests in a high valley, a place where the Tobacco Root Mountains begin to flex their stony shoulders against the vast Montana sky. It lies 22.9 miles east-south-east of Butte, MT (from Butte, MT: bearing 113°T), and is situated 26.3 miles west of Three Forks. The landscape here is one of broad, open country, a canvas painted with the muted greens of sagebrush and the ochre dust of summer, giving way to the starker browns and greys of winter’s long dominion. The land breathes with a certain quiet stoicism, the wind a constant companion, whispering secrets through the sparse grasses and across the weathered fences that delineate ranches stretching towards the distant, saw-toothed peaks. The air itself possesses a clarity, a crispness that can sting the lungs on a cold morning and feel like a benediction on a clear summer evening, when the light bleeds gold and rose across the western horizon. The history of Whitehall is inextricably linked to the land's bounty and the relentless drive of those who sought to tame it. Once a vital stop along the Northern Pacific Railway, its economy was forged in the crucible of agriculture and the transient fortunes of mining in the surrounding hills, echoes of which still resonate in the weathered facades of its older buildings. The Jefferson River, a ribbon of cool, clear water, has always been the lifeblood, irrigating fields of hay and alfalfa that carpet the valley floor, feeding cattle that graze on the boundless public lands. Today, Whitehall retains a sense of its frontier past, a place where the pace of life feels measured by the arc of the sun and the turn of the seasons, a place that holds its stories close, like a prospector guarding a rich vein.
Live animated radar for Whitehall 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 | Whitehall, Jefferson County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45.87076°N, 112.097494°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59759 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Whitehall, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Whitehall, 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 Whitehall includes coordinates 45.870760°N, 112.097494°W, situated in Jefferson County. ZIP code 59759. 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.
