Black Hat, New Mexico Weather
Black Hat, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Black Hat, McKinley County.
Full aviation weather for Black Hat is published on the Window Rock Airport (KRQE) page, 10 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 Black Hat 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 Black Hat: Gallup Municipal Airport (KGUP) 21 km · Ganado Airport (K85V) 51 km
Conditions reported at KRQE describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Black Hat specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Black Hat.
About Black Hat, New Mexico
Black Hat is a place where the land itself seems to hold its breath, a vast expanse of high desert plateau painted in ochre, rust, and the muted greens of hardy scrub. It lies 86.4 miles south-south-west of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 209°T), and is situated 6.0 miles south-east of Window Rock. The sky above is a boundless canvas, often a startling, electric blue that bleeds into soft lavender at the edges of day, and the air carries a dry, clean scent, a whisper of distant juniper and sun-baked earth. Here, the terrain rolls with a quiet, persistent strength, not in dramatic peaks but in broad, sweeping slopes that lead the eye to distant mesas, their flat tops etched against the horizon like ancient tables. The wind, a constant companion, shapes the very character of Black Hat, smoothing the edges of rocks and carrying the fine, red dust that settles with a gentle persistence on everything it touches. The story of Black Hat is deeply entwined with the earth beneath it, a history etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet industry that has sustained its people. For generations, the pulse of this locality has been tied to the earth's bounty, a subtle dance between human endeavor and the land's offering, with cattle ranching and the careful cultivation of the sparse vegetation forming the backbone of its economy. The legacy of those who first sought a life here is carried in the weathered faces and the resilient spirit of its inhabitants, a quiet pride in their ability to thrive in this starkly beautiful environment. There are no grand pronouncements of progress here, but rather a steady, enduring rhythm, a deep connection to the land that shapes the very soul of Black Hat.
Live animated radar for Black Hat 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 | Black Hat, McKinley County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 35.6311°N, 108.9641°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 86515, 87301 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Black Hat, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Black Hat, New Mexico, 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 Black Hat includes coordinates 35.631100°N, 108.964100°W, situated in McKinley County. ZIP code 86515, 87301. Telephone area code: 505. 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.
