Litchville, North Dakota Weather
Litchville, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Litchville, Barnes County.
Full aviation weather for Litchville is published on the Barnes County Municipal Airport (KBAC) page, 35 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 Litchville 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 Litchville: Lamoure Rott Municipal Airport (K4F9) 35 km · Jamestown Regional Airport (KJMS) 48 km · Oakes Municipal Airport (K2D5) 54 km
Conditions reported at KBAC describe the airfield itself. Weather 35 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Litchville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Litchville.
About Litchville, North Dakota
Litchville unfolds across a landscape of generous, sweeping plains, the kind where the horizon seems to stretch into an endless, whispered promise. It lies 63.1 miles west-south-west of West Fargo, ND (from West Fargo, ND: bearing 256°T), and is situated 20.7 miles south-south-west of Valley City. The land here is a study in subtle contours, a gentle swell and dip that catches the light in ever-shifting patterns, particularly in the late afternoon when the sun bleeds gold across the stubble fields and the wind, a constant companion, rustles through the hardy prairie grasses. The air itself carries a crisp, clean scent, a blend of dry earth and the distant, sweet perfume of ripening grain, and the sky, an immense dome of cerulean or bruised twilight, feels like a living entity, vast and deeply breathing. Litchville, in its quiet repose, seems to draw its character from this very expanse, a place where the silence is not empty but full, pregnant with the stories carried on the wind. The history of Litchville is bound to the rich, dark soil that has sustained generations, its local economy intrinsically linked to the bounty of agriculture, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who first coaxed life from this seemingly untamed earth. Wheat fields, stretching like golden oceans under the wide North Dakota sky, are the heart of Litchville’s prosperity, their cycles dictating the rhythm of life here. Though the days of vast cattle drives and burgeoning railway towns have long since receded, a quiet pride in the land and its harvest still permeates the community, a deep-seated connection to the cycles of planting and reaping. The architecture of Litchville, though humble, often possesses a sturdy, unpretentious beauty, reflecting the practicality and resilience of its people, and the occasional splash of vibrant color from a well-tended garden or a freshly painted storefront hints at a quiet, persistent joy.
Live animated radar for Litchville 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 | Litchville, Barnes County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 46.65359°N, 98.194262°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58461 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Litchville, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Litchville, 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 Litchville includes coordinates 46.653590°N, 98.194262°W, situated in Barnes County. ZIP code 58461. 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.
