Datil, New Mexico Weather
Datil, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Datil, Catron County.
Full aviation weather for Datil is published on the Socorro Municipal Airport (KONM) page, 88 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 KONM describe the airfield itself. Weather 88 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Datil specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Datil.
About Datil, New Mexico
Datil lies under a sky that seems to stretch on forever, a wide canvas painted with the muted ochres and dusty greens of high desert scrub. It lies 89.3 miles south-west of South Valley, NM (from South Valley, NM: bearing 228°T), and is situated 34.4 miles west of Magdalena. The land here is a study in patient erosion, where the wind has carved subtle hollows and smoothed the rough edges of ancient rock, leaving behind a terrain of wide mesas and shallow arroyos that sing with the dry rustle of sagebrush. The air, especially in the long afternoons, carries a faint, clean scent of sun-baked earth and distant piñon, a fragrance that settles deep into the lungs and stills the hurried pulse. Even the shadows possess a certain weight, pooling in the creases of the land as the sun begins its slow descent, casting the volcanic plugs and distant mountain ranges into stark, dramatic relief. This is a place where the past is not so much buried as it is a visible stratum beneath the present, a story whispered by the remnants of a bygone era of ranching and a fleeting flirtation with mining. The economy of Datil, now, is a quiet hum of self-sufficiency, where the land is worked with a deep respect, and the days unfold with a deliberate, unhurried grace. Long-ago dreams of boomtown prosperity have settled into the enduring reality of a landscape that demands resilience and a keen understanding of its rhythms, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who chose to make their lives on this wide, open stage. The silence here is not empty, but rather filled with the subtle sounds of the natural world, a constant, gentle reminder of Datil's place within the grander, wilder sweep of the American Southwest.
Live animated radar for Datil 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 | Datil, Catron County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 34.145059°N, 107.843663°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87821 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Datil, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Datil, 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 Datil includes coordinates 34.145059°N, 107.843663°W, situated in Catron County. ZIP code 87821. 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.
