Bowman, North Dakota Weather
Bowman, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bowman, Bowman County.
Full aviation weather for Bowman is published on the Bowman Regional Airport (KBWW) page, 8 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. 2 airfields within reach of Bowman 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 Bowman: Hettinger Municipal Airport (KHEI) 60 km
Conditions reported at KBWW describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bowman specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bowman.
About Bowman, North Dakota
Bowman rests on a land shaped by ancient forces, a place where the sky feels impossibly vast and the earth breathes a quiet resilience. It lies 56.0 miles south-south-west of Dickinson, ND (from Dickinson, ND: bearing 211°T), and is situated 38.4 miles west-north-west of Hettinger. The landscape around Bowman is a study in muted grandeur, a rolling expanse of prairie grasses that ripple like a tawny sea under the ceaseless wind. Here, the horizon stretches in an unbroken line, punctuated only by the occasional cluster of cottonwood trees that stand like solitary sentinels, their leaves whispering secrets to the passing clouds. The air, especially in the fading light of day, carries a crisp, clean scent, a blend of dry earth and the distant, faint perfume of sun-baked sagebrush. Even the shadows that stretch long and deep across the fields at dusk seem to possess a certain weight, an echo of the immense silence that often blankets these wide-open spaces. The story of Bowman is written in the soil and in the hardy spirit of its people, a narrative of perseverance against the elements and the allure of opportunity. This is a land where agriculture has always been king, with fields of grain and cattle ranches forming the backbone of the local economy, a testament to the enduring appeal of the fertile earth. Bowman owes its existence to the dreams of settlers who saw promise in this seemingly untamed territory, a vision that took root and blossomed into the community that exists today. The town itself, though small, holds a quiet dignity, a place where life moves at a pace dictated by the seasons and the needs of the land, and where the glow of porch lights at night offers a warm, inviting contrast to the profound darkness of the surrounding prairie.
Live animated radar for Bowman 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 | Bowman, Bowman County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 46.183062°N, 103.394906°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58623 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bowman, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bowman, North Dakota, 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 Bowman includes coordinates 46.183062°N, 103.394906°W, situated in Bowman County. ZIP code 58623. Telephone area code: 701. 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.
