Ontario, Ohio Weather
Ontario, Ohio — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ontario, Richland County.
Full aviation weather for Ontario is published on the Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport (KMFD) 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. 6 airfields within reach of Ontario 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 Ontario: Galion Municipal Airport (KGQQ) 11 km · Shelby Community Airport (K12G) 16 km · Morrow County Airport (K4I9) 34 km · Wynkoop Airport (K6G4) 45 km · Knox County Airport (K4I3) 48 km
Conditions reported at KMFD describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ontario specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ontario.
About Ontario, Ohio
Ontario unfolds across a terrain of rolling hills, remnants of ancient glacial activity, where fields of ripening corn and soybeans stretch towards horizons softened by the humid embrace of summer air. It lies 3.9 miles west of Mansfield, OH (from Mansfield, OH: bearing 271°T), and is situated 9.2 miles south-south-east of Shelby. The land here, a fertile tapestry woven from loam and clay, supports a life lived close to the soil, where the changing seasons dictate the rhythm of days. Oak and maple trees, heavy with foliage, cast deep shadows across winding country roads, and in the early morning, a mist often clings to the low-lying hollows, lending a quiet, spectral beauty to the landscape. The character of Ontario is one of quiet perseverance, a place where the land provides and the people work it with a steady, unpretentious hand. This corner of Richland County carries the echoes of a hardworking past, its economy once deeply rooted in agriculture and later bolstered by manufacturing, the sturdy brick buildings of former factories now standing as silent witnesses to a different era. The legacy of the land continues to shape Ontario, with agricultural businesses still a vital part of its economic heartbeat, though diversification has brought new industries to its growing edges. The gentle undulations of the land, carved by the slow, patient work of water over millennia, offer a constant reminder of nature’s enduring presence, a landscape that feels both familiar and timeless, a place that has weathered its share of storms and continued to bloom anew.
Live animated radar for Ontario 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 | Ontario, Richland County, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 40.759501°N, 82.590172°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 44906, 44862 |
| Area Code | 419 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ontario, Ohio Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ontario, Ohio, 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 Ontario includes coordinates 40.759501°N, 82.590172°W, situated in Richland County. ZIP code 44906, 44862. Telephone area code: 419. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
