Buckhorn, New Mexico Weather
Buckhorn, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Buckhorn, Grant County.
Full aviation weather for Buckhorn is published on the Greenlee County Airport (KCFT) page, 48 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 Buckhorn 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 Buckhorn: Whiskey Creek Airport (K94E) 56 km
Conditions reported at KCFT describe the airfield itself. Weather 48 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Buckhorn specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Buckhorn.
About Buckhorn, New Mexico
Buckhorn lies in a wide, shallow basin, a place where the sky stretches vast and uninterrupted, and the land rolls out in muted tones of sagebrush and dun-colored grass. It lies 60.9 miles east of Graham, AZ (from Graham, AZ: bearing 79°T), and is situated 28.8 miles west-north-west of Little Walnut Village. The air here carries a dry, mineral tang, hinting at the ancient geology that underpins the landscape. Cattle, stoic and weathered, graze on these arid plains, their forms softened by the perpetual haze that hangs over the horizon, a delicate veil spun from dust and distant heat. The few scattered homesteads are hardy, their fences and structures bleached by sun and wind, standing as stoic testaments to a persistent human presence in this rugged expanse. The character of Buckhorn is deeply rooted in the earth and its bounty, a legacy of the mining that once pulsed through the region, leaving behind whispers of boomtown ambition and forgotten fortunes. Though the mines have long since fallen silent, the spirit of resilience remains, now channeled into ranching and a quiet self-sufficiency. The economy, modest and unassuming, thrives on the enduring rhythms of livestock and the sparse but vital resources drawn from the surrounding country. This is a place where time seems to move with a different cadence, where the slow arc of the sun across the immense sky dictates the day's unfolding, and the silence is broken only by the distant lowing of cattle or the sigh of the wind through the sparse, hardy vegetation.
Live animated radar for Buckhorn 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 | Buckhorn, Grant County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 33.037013°N, 108.70839°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 88025 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Buckhorn, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Buckhorn, 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 Buckhorn includes coordinates 33.037013°N, 108.708390°W, situated in Grant County. ZIP code 88025. Telephone area code: 575. 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.
