Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Weather
Mount Pleasant, North Carolina — 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 Mount Pleasant, Wilkes County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Mount Pleasant. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Mount Pleasant is published on the Wilkes County Airport (KUKF) page, 22 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. 6 airfields within reach of Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant: Ashe County Airport (KGEV) 33 km · Foothills Regional Airport (KMRN) 45 km · Hickory Regional Airport (KHKY) 46 km · Elkin Municipal Airport (KZEF) 50 km · Statesville Regional Airport (KSVH) 54 km
Conditions reported at KUKF describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mount Pleasant specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mount Pleasant.
About Mount Pleasant, North Carolina
Mount Pleasant rises from a landscape of rolling hills, where the broad shoulders of the Blue Ridge Mountains begin to soften and spread their influence. It lies 28.8 miles north of Hickory, NC (from Hickory, NC: bearing 2°T), and is situated 9.7 miles west of North Wilkesboro. Here, the terrain is a study in subtle gradients, the land folding and unfolding with a quiet persistence. Oak and pine, their branches reaching toward a sky that often wears a hazy, luminous quality, dominate the wooded slopes, their shadows lengthening across fields of late-season corn stubble. The air, especially in the early morning, carries the damp, earthy scent of dew-kissed soil and the faint, sweet perfume of distant honeysuckle. The houses of Mount Pleasant are scattered, some clustered in small neighborhoods, others standing sentinel on their own plots of land, their porches often catching the slant of afternoon sun. The history of Mount Pleasant is as layered as the soil beneath its feet, a story of agriculture and resilient folk who found a living from this very land. For generations, farming has been the bedrock of the local economy, with tobacco, corn, and cattle shaping the contours of the countryside and the lives of its people. While the days of large tobacco harvests are a memory for some, the spirit of the land endures, evident in the well-tended gardens and the small family farms that still dot the landscape. The nearby Yadkin River, a silver ribbon winding through the foothills, has always played a role, providing water and a sense of connection to a wider world, though its presence is more felt in the fertile valleys than as a dominant feature of Mount Pleasant itself. The character of Mount Pleasant is one of quiet endurance, a place where time moves at a pace that allows for observation, for the slow unfolding of seasons and the steady progression of daily life.
Live animated radar for Mount Pleasant 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 | Mount Pleasant, Wilkes County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36.149019°N, 81.320648°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28624, 28657, 27011, 28124 |
| Area Code | 336, 704, 980 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, 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 Mount Pleasant includes coordinates 36.149019°N, 81.320648°W, situated in Wilkes County. ZIP code 28624, 28657, 27011, 28124. Telephone area code: 336, 704, 980. 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.
