Oil City, Pennsylvania Weather
Oil City, Pennsylvania — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Oil City, Cambria County.
Full aviation weather for Oil City is published on the John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Airport (KJST) page, 19 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. 5 airfields within reach of Oil City 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 Oil City: Altoona Blair County Airport (KAOO) 30 km · Bedford County Airport (KHMZ) 37 km · Indiana County–Jimmy Stewart Airport (KIDI) 47 km · Somerset County Airport (K2G9) 51 km
Conditions reported at KJST describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Oil City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Oil City.
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.
Live animated radar for Oil City 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.
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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 | September 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, 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 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. 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.
