Raquette Lake, New York Weather
Raquette Lake, New York — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Raquette Lake, Hamilton County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Raquette Lake. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Raquette Lake is published on the Piseco Airport (KK09) page, 42 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 KK09 describe the airfield itself. Weather 42 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Raquette Lake specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Raquette Lake.
About Raquette Lake, New York
Raquette Lake lies like a spilled sapphire amidst the Adirondack wilderness, its waters a deep, cool blue reflecting the towering, ancient pines that crowd its shores. It lies 57.0 miles north-north-east of Utica, NY (from Utica, NY: bearing 30°T), and is situated 19.3 miles west of Indian Lake. The landscape here is a study in rugged grandeur, a place where granite outcroppings, smoothed by millennia of ice and wind, emerge from the dense, emerald forest. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a crisp, pine-scented chill that seems to penetrate to the bone, a bracing reminder of the wildness that surrounds Raquette Lake. Dusk often paints the western sky in bruised purples and fiery oranges, a silent spectacle mirrored on the lake's glassy surface, a fleeting moment of profound beauty before the velvet darkness descends. This is a place shaped by the grand estates of Gilded Age magnates who sought solace and status among these remote peaks, their opulent camps now largely a memory, their echoes whispered by the rustling leaves. The local economy, once tied to logging and the burgeoning tourism of a bygone era, now finds its pulse in the seasonal influx of visitors drawn to the pristine waters and the vast network of trails. The Adirondack League Club, a venerable institution, still holds sway over significant tracts of land, a guardian of the wild character that defines Raquette Lake. The quiet hum of seaplanes, taking off and landing on the lake's broad expanse, is a modern counterpoint to the historical whispers of steamships and the distant call of a loon, a sound that seems to carry the very soul of the wilderness.
Live animated radar for Raquette Lake 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 | Raquette Lake, Hamilton County, New York |
| Coordinates | 43.81312°N, 74.65739°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 13436 |
| Area Code | 315 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Raquette Lake, New York Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Raquette Lake, New York, 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 Raquette Lake includes coordinates 43.813120°N, 74.657390°W, situated in Hamilton County. ZIP code 13436. Telephone area code: 315. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
