Cheney, Nebraska Weather
Cheney, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cheney, Lancaster County.
Full aviation weather for Cheney is published on the Lincoln Airport (KLNK) page, 19 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. 6 airfields within reach of Cheney 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 Cheney: Crete Municipal Airport (KCEK) 30 km · Seward Municipal Airport (KSWT) 46 km · Beatrice Municipal Airport (KBIE) 49 km · Tecumseh Municipal Airport (K0G3) 51 km · Wahoo Municipal Airport (KAHQ) 57 km
Conditions reported at KLNK describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cheney specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cheney.
About Cheney, Nebraska
Cheney rests in a broad, fertile cradle of the Nebraska prairie, where the land rolls with the patient, unhurried breath of the Great Plains. It lies 6.3 miles south-east of Lincoln, NE (from Lincoln, NE: bearing 144°T), and is situated 7.5 miles north-north-east of Hickman. The sky above Cheney is a vast, ever-changing canvas, its blues deepening to indigo at dusk, broken only by the occasional, wind-sculpted cloud. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch to the horizon, their verdant uniformity broken by the darker lines of trees that follow the gentle contours of the terrain, hinting at the slow, meandering creeks that nourish this land. The air here carries the clean scent of turned earth and distant rain, a palpable presence that settles over the quiet streets and the sturdy, low-slung buildings. This is a place whose character is deeply etched by the agricultural heart that beats within Cheney, a legacy of homesteaders who saw potential in these wide-open spaces. The local economy, though diversified, still feels the pulse of the harvest, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels against the sky. While no grand monuments mark its history, Cheney’s story is told in the weathered barns and the enduring spirit of its residents, a resilience forged in the face of prairie winds and changing times. The gentle slope of the land, leading toward the subtle murmur of water in unseen ditches, speaks of a life lived in close communion with the earth, a quiet testament to the enduring strength of this Nebraska locality.
Live animated radar for Cheney 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 | Cheney, Lancaster County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 40.725556°N, 96.596126°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68526 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cheney, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cheney, Nebraska, 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 Cheney includes coordinates 40.725556°N, 96.596126°W, situated in Lancaster County. ZIP code 68526. Telephone area code: 402. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
