Oil City, Pennsylvania Weather
Oil City, Pennsylvania — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Oil City, Cambria County.
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About Oil City, Pennsylvania
Oil City lies in a valley carved deep by the Allegheny River, its slopes a verdant sprawl of hardwood and hemlock that hums with the ceaseless industry of cicadas on a humid summer afternoon. It lies 15.2 miles west-south-west of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 238°T), and is situated 7.2 miles south-east of Ebensburg. The land rises sharply here, a rugged embrace of Pennsylvania's Appalachian foothills, where the sky often feels like a vast, bruised watercolor at dusk, bleeding indigo and ochre over the clustered rooftops. Streets wind and climb, following the contours of the terrain, a reminder that this place was shaped not by a surveyor's grid but by the insistent flow of water and the stubborn root systems of ancient trees. The very name of Oil City whispers of a boom and bust, of fortunes made and lost in the black gold that once flowed from beneath this very soil. The legacy of the oil industry still clings to the brick facades of older buildings, a phantom scent of petroleum mingling with the damp earth after a rain. While the wells have long since gone dry, the spirit of enterprise endures, now channeled into manufacturing and a quiet resilience that echoes the clang of hammers on steel. Along the riverbanks, where barges once nudged against weathered docks, a more gentle rhythm prevails, the water a constant, murmuring presence in the life of Oil City, carrying the stories of generations downstream.
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| Location | Oil City, Cambria County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40.402295°N, 78.640018°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 15938, 16301 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Oil City, Pennsylvania Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Oil City, Pennsylvania, 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 Oil City includes coordinates 40.402295°N, 78.640018°W, situated in Cambria County. ZIP code 15938, 16301. Telephone area code: 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
