Crestview, New Mexico Weather
Crestview, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Crestview, McKinley County.
Full aviation weather for Crestview is published on the Gallup Municipal Airport (KGUP) page, 7 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 Crestview 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 Crestview: Window Rock Airport (KRQE) 26 km · Andrew Othole Memorial Airport (KXNI) 48 km
Conditions reported at KGUP describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Crestview specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Crestview.
About Crestview, New Mexico
Crestview unfurls across a high desert plateau, where the land exhales a scent of sun-baked earth and tenacious sagebrush. It lies 92.8 miles south-south-west of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 203°T), and is situated 7.0 miles west-south-west of Gallup. The vast New Mexico sky, an immense canvas of shifting blues and bruised purples at dusk, presides over a landscape of muted ochres and rusts. Low, scrubby vegetation clings to the gently sloping terrain, punctuated by the occasional hardy juniper, its branches gnarled and reaching like ancient, weathered hands. The air, thin and crisp, carries a profound stillness, broken only by the whisper of wind that seems to scour the very stones. Distant mesas, their silhouettes softened by haze, stand as silent sentinels, their forms suggesting a deep, geological time. The story of Crestview is written in the earth and in the determined spirit of its people. This is a place shaped by the enduring legacy of Indigenous cultures and by the subsequent arrival of those drawn to the mineral wealth beneath the surface. Though mining once hummed with a different kind of energy, the local economy now finds its pulse in the resilience of ranching and in the quiet hum of small businesses catering to the surrounding ranches and passing travelers. The distinctive character of Crestview is one of quiet endurance, a place where life moves at a pace dictated by the sun and the seasons, fostering a sense of deep connection to the land and to the shared history that binds its inhabitants.
Live animated radar for Crestview 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 | Crestview, McKinley County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 35.4878°N, 108.8574°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87301 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Crestview, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crestview, 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 Crestview includes coordinates 35.487800°N, 108.857400°W, situated in McKinley County. ZIP code 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.
