Zap, North Dakota Weather
Zap, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Zap, Mercer County.
Full aviation weather for Zap is published on the Beulah Airport (K95D) page, 9 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 Zap 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 Zap: Mercer County Regional Airport (KHZE) 26 km · Glen Ullin Regional Airport (KD57) 53 km · Garrison Municipal Airport (KD05) 55 km
Conditions reported at K95D describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Zap specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Zap.
About Zap, North Dakota
Zap lies on a flat expanse, where the prairie stretches wide and the sky feels immense. It lies 49.6 miles north-east of Dickinson, ND (from Dickinson, ND: bearing 55°T), and is situated 7.0 miles west-north-west of Beulah. The land here is a subtle palette of ochres and muted greens, broken by the occasional stand of wind-bent cottonwoods that offer a meager, yet welcome, shade. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a dry, clean scent, tinged with the dust of the fields and the faint, sweet aroma of ripening grain. The silence of Zap is not an emptiness, but a presence, a quiet hum of the earth breathing under the vast North Dakota sky. The history of Zap is as unadorned as its landscape, tied to the fertile soil that has sustained generations. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of agriculture, carved a life out of this challenging terrain, establishing a community that learned to endure the extremes of weather. The local economy remains rooted in farming, with wheat and other grains dominating the fields that surround the settlement. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions in Zap; its character is found in the steadfastness of its people and the quiet dignity of a place where life moves at the pace of the seasons, punctuated by the slow, steady turning of the earth.
Live animated radar for Zap 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 | Zap, Mercer County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 47.286397°N, 101.92267°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/North_Dakota/Beulah) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58580 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Zap, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Zap, 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 Zap includes coordinates 47.286397°N, 101.922670°W, situated in Mercer County. ZIP code 58580. Telephone area code: 701. Timezone: Central Time (America/North_Dakota/Beulah).
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.
