Cando, North Dakota Weather
Cando, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Cando, Towner County.
Full aviation weather for Cando is published on the Cando Municipal Airport (K9D7) page, 2 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. 4 airfields within reach of Cando 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 Cando: Leeds Municipal Airport (KD31) 27 km · Devils Lake Regional Airport (KDVL) 47 km · Rolla Municipal Airport (K06D) 54 km
Conditions reported at K9D7 describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cando specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Cando, North Dakota
Cando lies under a sky that seems to stretch further than anywhere else on earth, a vast, blue canvas brushed with the pale gold of ripening wheat. It lies 97.4 miles east of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 79°T), and is situated 17.2 miles north-east of Leeds. The land around Cando is a gentle swell and dip, a patient landscape sculpted by wind and sun, where the horizon is a constant, unwavering line. Dirt roads, like faded ribbons, trace across the fields, leading the eye towards distant farmsteads that are little more than specks against the immensity of the prairie. In the quiet of late afternoon, the air itself feels hushed, carrying the faint, dry scent of grasses and the promise of cool air to come. The founding of Cando is a story etched in the determination of settlers who saw potential in this wide-open country, a place where dreams could take root in the fertile soil. The local economy has long been tethered to the earth, with agriculture forming the sturdy backbone of life here, the cycles of planting and harvest dictating the rhythm of the year. Occasionally, the sharp glint of sunlight on a silo or the slow crawl of a combine across a distant field offers a point of focus in the otherwise unbroken expanse. Cando, though small, possesses a deep-seated resilience, a quiet strength born from the very land it calls home.
Live animated radar for Cando 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 | Cando, Towner County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 48.486668°N, 99.209859°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58324 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cando, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cando, 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 Cando includes coordinates 48.486668°N, 99.209859°W, situated in Towner County. ZIP code 58324. 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. 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.
