Balfour, North Dakota Weather
Balfour, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Balfour, McHenry County.
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About Balfour, North Dakota
Balfour unfurls itself across a broad, sweeping prairie, a quiet dominion under an immense sky where the land rolls out in subtle, sun-baked waves. It lies 40.2 miles east-south-east of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 119°T), and is situated 19.6 miles east-south-east of Velva. The horizon here is a clean, unwavering line, broken only by the occasional weathered silo or a distant stand of cottonwoods that seem to hold their breath against the ceaseless wind. Dust devils dance across the parched fields in the summer heat, ephemeral spirits conjuring the wildness of this open country, and in winter, the snowdrifts can swallow roads whole, transforming the landscape into an unbroken expanse of white. The air itself carries a certain clarity, a crispness that sharpens the edges of the world and lends a profound stillness to the quietude of Balfour. The story of Balfour is written in the soil, a testament to the tenacity of those who first carved a life from this land, drawn by the promise of fertile ground and the boundless opportunity of the American West. Its economy, like so many small prairie towns, has long been tethered to the rhythm of agriculture, the planting and harvesting of grains that paint the fields in shifting hues of green and gold throughout the seasons. This enduring connection to the earth imbues Balfour with a grounded character, a sense of deep roots that run as strong as the prairie grasses. While the world outside may whirl with change, life in Balfour proceeds with a deliberate, measured pace, each day a familiar cadence of sunrise, work, and sunset, a quiet unfolding under the vast, indifferent gaze of the North Dakota sky.
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| Location | Balfour, McHenry County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 47.951671°N, 100.534586°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58712 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Balfour, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Balfour, North Dakota, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Balfour includes coordinates 47.951671°N, 100.534586°W, situated in McHenry County. ZIP code 58712. Telephone area code: 701. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
