Wilkesboro, North Carolina Weather
Wilkesboro, 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 Wilkesboro, Wilkes County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Wilkesboro. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Wilkesboro is published on the Wilkes County Airport (KUKF) page, 10 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 Wilkesboro 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 Wilkesboro: Elkin Municipal Airport (KZEF) 37 km · Ashe County Airport (KGEV) 39 km · Statesville Regional Airport (KSVH) 46 km · Hickory Regional Airport (KHKY) 50 km · Foothills Regional Airport (KMRN) 54 km
Conditions reported at KUKF describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Wilkesboro specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Wilkesboro.
About Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Wilkesboro rests in a hollow where the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains begin to soften, a place where the Yadkin River, still a spirited youth, carves its course through fertile valleys. It lies 29.4 miles north-north-west of Statesville, NC (from Statesville, NC: bearing 329°T), and is situated 1.1 miles south-west of North Wilkesboro. The air here, especially after a summer rain, carries the scent of damp earth and pine, a clean, cool breath that settles deep in the lungs. Rolling hills, cloaked in a mosaic of green during the warmer months and painted with fiery hues in autumn, hem the town, their slopes dotted with farms and stands of hardwood. The sky overhead often stretches wide and pale blue, a vast canvas interrupted by the occasional slow-moving cloud, and the light at dusk can pool in the western sky with a remarkable, almost tangible, golden quality before the stars begin to prick through the deepening indigo. This is a land that has known generations of toil, its economy historically rooted in agriculture and the harvesting of its abundant timber. For many years, tobacco was king here, its golden leaves a familiar sight drying in barns that still dot the landscape, a quiet echo of a bygone era. More recently, Wilkesboro has become synonymous with the craft beverage industry, particularly its burgeoning number of breweries and distilleries, drawing visitors and a new kind of energy to its core. The legacy of its early settlers and the hardy individuals who built its industries are etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring spirit of its people and the quiet persistence of its agricultural heart, a character that resonates in the unhurried pace of life and the genuine warmth of a handshake.
Live animated radar for Wilkesboro 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 | Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36.145965°N, 81.16064°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28697 |
| Area Code | 828 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Wilkesboro, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wilkesboro, 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 Wilkesboro includes coordinates 36.145965°N, 81.160640°W, situated in Wilkes County. ZIP code 28697. Telephone area code: 828. 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.
