Wishek, North Dakota Weather
Wishek, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Wishek, McIntosh County.
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About Wishek, North Dakota
Wishek rests on a wide, sweeping prairie, where the horizon stretches in an unbroken line of subtle greens and golds, punctuated only by the occasional cluster of farm buildings or a lone windbreak of cottonwoods. It lies 69.7 miles east-south-east of Bismarck, ND (from Bismarck, ND: bearing 123°T), and is situated 17.8 miles north-north-west of Ashley. The land here is a study in patient geology, gently rolling and vast, the sky a boundless canvas that shifts from the pale, bright blue of midday to the bruised purples and fiery oranges of sunset. The air, especially in the early morning or late evening, carries a crispness that speaks of wide-open spaces and clean, unfettered air, a palpable presence that settles over the quiet streets of Wishek. Even in summer, there's a cool undercurrent, a promise of the stark, beautiful winters to come, and the land itself feels sturdy, unyielding, built for endurance. The spirit of Wishek is deeply rooted in the hardy resilience of its German-Russian settlers, who arrived with dreams of cultivating this fertile, if challenging, landscape. Their legacy is etched in the enduring agricultural economy, where wheat and sunflowers still dominate the fields, their golden heads nodding in unison with the prairie breeze. The town's annual "Everything Under the Sun" festival is a vibrant testament to this heritage, a lively celebration of community and the bounty of the land, where the scent of baking rye bread mingles with the sweet perfume of sunflowers. Though modest in size, Wishek possesses a quiet strength, a sense of self-sufficiency born from generations of farmers and small business owners who have learned to thrive in this corner of the northern plains, their lives intimately tied to the turning of the seasons and the predictable, yet ever-changing, moods of the prairie sky.
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| Location | Wishek, McIntosh County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 46.256918°N, 99.557057°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58495 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Wishek, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wishek, North Dakota, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Wishek includes coordinates 46.256918°N, 99.557057°W, situated in McIntosh County. ZIP code 58495. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
