Blanco, New Mexico Weather
Blanco, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Blanco, San Juan County.
Full aviation weather for Blanco is published on the Four Corners Regional Airport (KFMN) page, 36 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 Blanco 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 Blanco: Durango La Plata County Airport (KDRO) 48 km · Animas Air Park (K00C) 53 km
Conditions reported at KFMN describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Blanco specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Blanco.
About Blanco, New Mexico
Blanco lies in a broad, open basin where the earth slopes gently towards the San Juan River. It lies 21.8 miles east of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 91°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east of Bloomfield. The landscape here is a study in muted earth tones, ochre and rust and pale sage, broken by the scrubby resilience of piñon and juniper. The sky often feels impossibly vast, a pale, washed-out blue that deepens to a bruised violet as evening approaches, casting long, quiet shadows across the sparse vegetation. A dry, mineral scent, tinged with the faint sweetness of sun-baked sagebrush, hangs in the air, a constant reminder of the arid embrace of this land. The history of Blanco is inextricably linked to the flow of the San Juan River, a lifeline that has sustained life and agriculture for generations. For a time, the discovery of oil and gas brought a surge of activity, a temporary quickening of the unhurried pace that generally defines life in Blanco. Though those boom times have receded, the legacy remains in the infrastructure and the ingrained knowledge of extraction that still permeates the local economy. The land itself, however, remains the enduring character, a place where the quiet rhythm of the seasons dictates the days, and where the distant mesas stand as silent witnesses to the passage of time.
Live animated radar for Blanco 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 | Blanco, San Juan County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 36.724172°N, 107.82534°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87412, 87413 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Blanco, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blanco, 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 Blanco includes coordinates 36.724172°N, 107.825340°W, situated in San Juan County. ZIP code 87412, 87413. 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.
