Cotton City, New Mexico Weather
Cotton City, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cotton City, Hidalgo County.
Full aviation weather for Cotton City is published on the Lordsburg Municipal Airport (KLSB) page, 32 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.
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.
Conditions reported at KLSB describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cotton City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cotton City.
About Cotton City, New Mexico
Cotton City, a name that whispers of a past agricultural abundance, now lies under a sky that stretches, vast and often startlingly blue, over the arid plains of Hidalgo County. It lies 74.0 miles south-east of Graham, AZ (from Graham, AZ: bearing 137°T), and is situated 20.7 miles south-south-west of Lordsburg. The land here is a study in muted tones – ochre, dust-rose, and the pale sage of hardy scrub that clings to the earth with a tenacious, almost desperate grip. Rolling hills, softened by millennia of wind and infrequent rain, form a gentle, undulating horizon, broken only by the occasional, stark silhouette of a mesquite tree, its branches reaching like skeletal fingers towards the sun. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, tinged with the faint perfume of creosote after a rare shower, and the silence, when it descends, is profound, broken only by the scuttling of unseen creatures or the distant, mournful cry of a hawk. Sunlight, especially in the late afternoon, casts long, attenuated shadows, painting the landscape with a warm, golden hue that softens its inherent austerity. The economic pulse of Cotton City, once thrumming with the cultivation of its namesake crop, has long since shifted. Today, the echoes of that agrarian past are subtle, found in the weathered barns that dot the landscape and the faint, almost forgotten lines of irrigation ditches. The present economy is a more pragmatic affair, often tied to the resources and transit routes that traverse this corner of New Mexico. There are whispers of mining in the surrounding hills, and the steady flow of traffic along nearby highways provides a lifeline for local businesses. The character of Cotton City is one of quiet resilience, a community that has learned to adapt to the unforgiving beauty of its environment, where the pace of life is dictated by the sun’s arc and the persistent, ancient rhythms of the desert.
Live animated radar for Cotton City 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 | Cotton City, Hidalgo County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 32.08842°N, 108.879224°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 88020 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cotton City, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cotton City, 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 Cotton City includes coordinates 32.088420°N, 108.879224°W, situated in Hidalgo County. ZIP code 88020. 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.
