Tilden, Nebraska Weather
Tilden, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Tilden, Madison County.
Full aviation weather for Tilden is published on the Karl Stefan Memorial Airport (KOFK) page, 34 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. 2 airfields within reach of Tilden 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 Tilden: Albion Municipal Airport (KBVN) 40 km
Conditions reported at KOFK describe the airfield itself. Weather 34 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Tilden specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Tilden.
About Tilden, Nebraska
Tilden rests within a broad, open expanse of Nebraska farmland, where the horizon stretches out like an unrolled bolt of pale blue cloth. It lies 21.4 miles west of Norfolk, NE (from Norfolk, NE: bearing 274°T), and is situated 18.9 miles west-south-west of Pierce. The land here is a quilt of cultivated fields, a patchwork of greens and golds that shift with the seasons, punctuated by the darker, richer hues of windbreaks and scattered farmsteads. Gently rolling terrain softens the edge of the prairie, hinting at the underlying geology that has shaped this landscape over millennia. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a clean, earthy scent, a subtle perfume of soil, growing things, and the distant hum of agricultural machinery. Sunlight, when it breaks through the wide sky, paints long, attenuated shadows that stretch across the fields, giving the land a layered, textured appearance. This is a place where the echoes of pioneers still seem to linger in the quiet air, a testament to the hardiness of those who first settled these fertile plains. Tilden grew with the agricultural boom, its economy intrinsically tied to the bounty of the surrounding land, primarily corn and soybeans. The grain elevators, tall sentinels against the sky, stand as silent witnesses to generations of harvest. While not a place of grand monuments, Tilden possesses a quiet dignity, a sense of enduring purpose in its agricultural roots. The pace of life here is measured, dictated by the sun and the cycles of planting and reaping, a steady rhythm that has sustained the character of this Nebraska locality for over a century.
Live animated radar for Tilden 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 | Tilden, Madison County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 42.047229°N, 97.83395°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68781 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Tilden, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tilden, 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 Tilden includes coordinates 42.047229°N, 97.833950°W, situated in Madison County. ZIP code 68781. 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.
