Fort Wingate, New Mexico Weather
Fort Wingate, New Mexico — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Fort Wingate, McKinley County.
Full aviation weather for Fort Wingate is published on the Gallup Municipal Airport (KGUP) page, 23 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. 4 airfields within reach of Fort Wingate 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 Fort Wingate: Crownpoint Airport (K0E8) 41 km · Window Rock Airport (KRQE) 52 km · Andrew Othole Memorial Airport (KXNI) 58 km
Conditions reported at KGUP describe the airfield itself. Weather 23 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fort Wingate specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fort Wingate.
About Fort Wingate, New Mexico
Fort Wingate stands as a sentinel against the vast New Mexico sky, its ochre earth and scrub-dotted plains stretching towards distant, hazy mesas. It lies 88.9 miles south-south-west of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 192°T), and is situated 5.6 miles south-east of Church Rock. The air here carries a dry, clean scent of sage and piñon, a subtle perfume that clings to the skin even after a dust storm has passed. Low-lying structures, some weathered to a soft grey, others still showing the stark white of their original adobe, huddle together as if for warmth against the immense, indifferent landscape. The light, especially in the late afternoon, transforms the very stones, casting long, dramatic shadows that seem to deepen the silence. Here, the world feels pared down to its essentials: earth, sky, and the resilient life that ekes out an existence between them. The history of Fort Wingate is a deep, resonant chord in the symphony of this land, echoing with the footsteps of soldiers and the whispers of Native American cultures. Once a vital military post, its purpose has shifted over time, its buildings now serving a different kind of community. The local economy, once tethered to the rhythms of the fort and the surrounding ranchlands, now finds its pulse in a more varied, resilient beat, with elements of tourism and small-scale agriculture contributing to its sustenance. The very ground beneath Fort Wingate seems to hold stories, a palpable sense of generations past who shaped this place with their labor and their dreams.
Live animated radar for Fort Wingate 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 | Fort Wingate, McKinley County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 35.467802°N, 108.54119°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 87316 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fort Wingate, New Mexico Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fort Wingate, 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 Fort Wingate includes coordinates 35.467802°N, 108.541190°W, situated in McKinley County. ZIP code 87316. 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.
