Ludden, North Dakota Weather
Ludden, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ludden, Dickey County.
Full aviation weather for Ludden is published on the Oakes Municipal Airport (K2D5) page, 19 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. 5 airfields within reach of Ludden 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 Ludden: Britton Municipal Airport (KBTN) 37 km · Lamoure Rott Municipal Airport (K4F9) 40 km · Gwinner Roger Melroe Field (KGWR) 44 km · Groton Municipal Airport (K2E6) 53 km
Conditions reported at K2D5 describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ludden specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ludden.
About Ludden, North Dakota
Ludden rests in the broad embrace of the North Dakota prairie, a place where the horizon feels less like a boundary and more like an invitation. It lies 41.4 miles north-north-east of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 25°T), and is situated 9.1 miles south of Oakes. The land here is a study in gentle swells and subtle depressions, a vast, unbroken canvas painted in shades of ochre and emerald during the warmer months, transitioning to a muted palette of straw and snow under winter’s dominion. The air, when it’s not carrying the crisp bite of an approaching storm, often holds the faint, sweet scent of drying grasses and distant fields. Here, the sky is a constant companion, a boundless expanse that shifts from the pale, luminous blue of midday to the fiery, bruised purples and oranges of twilight, a spectacle that washes over the quiet landscape with a profound, unspoken beauty. The history of Ludden is intimately tied to the agricultural heart of Dickey County, a story etched into the very grain of the land. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of fertile soil, established homesteads that gradually coalesced into the community we see today. The local economy, historically rooted in the cultivation of wheat and other grains, still relies on the bounty of the surrounding farms, where tractors trace slow, deliberate paths across the vast fields, a modern echo of the plows that first broke the prairie sod. While the pace of life in Ludden reflects the unhurried rhythm of the seasons, the community’s resilience and enduring spirit are as deeply ingrained as the roots of the prairie grasses themselves.
Live animated radar for Ludden 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 | Ludden, Dickey County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 46.008582°N, 98.12538°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58474 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ludden, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ludden, 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 Ludden includes coordinates 46.008582°N, 98.125380°W, situated in Dickey County. ZIP code 58474. 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.
