New Town, North Dakota Weather
New Town, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for New Town, Mountrail County.
Full aviation weather for New Town is published on the Parshall Hankins Airport (KY74) page, 26 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.
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.
Conditions reported at KY74 describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at New Town specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for New Town.
About New Town, North Dakota
New Town sits under a vast North Dakota sky, a place where the land stretches out with a patient, unbroken expanse. It lies 53.3 miles east-south-east of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 102°T), and is situated 16.5 miles west of Parshall. The terrain here is a subtle, rolling prairie, a landscape of grasses that whisper under the wind and the occasional sturdy, wind-bent tree. Sunlight, when it breaks through the clouds, washes the fields in hues of gold and amber, a light that feels both ancient and immediate. The air carries the clean scent of soil and distance, a bracing coolness that hints at the long winters and the vibrant, brief summers. There is a quiet tenacity to this land, a resilience that mirrors the character of the people who call New Town home. This locality owes much of its modern existence to the discovery of oil, a powerful current that has reshaped its economy and brought a dynamic pulse to the otherwise tranquil prairie. The legacy of the oil boom is etched into the very fabric of New Town, a story of boom and bust, of rapid growth and the enduring spirit of a community built on hard work and resourcefulness. While the fields still hold their agricultural sway, the hum of industry is an undeniable presence, a modern counterpoint to the historical echoes of homesteading and the enduring connection to the land. This blend of tradition and progress gives New Town a distinctive character, a place where the future is always being forged on the foundations of the past.
Live animated radar for New Town 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 | New Town, Mountrail County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 47.980848°N, 102.49018°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58763 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This New Town, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for New Town, 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 New Town includes coordinates 47.980848°N, 102.490180°W, situated in Mountrail County. ZIP code 58763. 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.
