Browntown, South Carolina — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Browntown, Lee County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Browntown. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Browntown is published on the Lee County Butters Field (K52J) 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 Browntown 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 Browntown: Sumter Airport (KSMS) 24 km · Woodward Field (KCDN) 24 km · Hartsville Regional Airport (KHVS) 29 km · Shaw Air Force Base (KSSC) 29 km · Flying W Airport (K2Q0) 34 km
Conditions reported at K52J describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Browntown specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Browntown.
Browntown lies spread across the gentle incline of the Pee Dee landscape, a patchwork quilt of cultivated fields and the deeper, shadowed green of mature woodlands. It lies 19.6 miles north of Sumter, SC (from Sumter, SC: bearing 4°T), and is situated 4.0 miles west-south-west of Bishopville. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint, sweet scent of pine needles warmed by the sun, mingling with the earthy aroma of turned soil from the surrounding farms. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy of oaks and maples, falls in broad, golden shafts that illuminate the dust motes dancing in the quiet stillness, giving the very air a tangible, luminous quality. The roads, some paved and some the soft red clay that characterizes this part of the state, wind their way between the open fields, leading the eye toward the distant, hazy horizon where the land seems to melt into the sky. The history of Browntown is deeply entwined with the agricultural rhythms of Lee County, a place where cotton once reigned supreme, its white bolls a familiar sight against the deep green stalks. While the landscape still bears the marks of this agrarian past, the local economy has diversified, with small businesses and trades supporting the families who have long called this place home. There are no grand monuments here, no bustling tourist attractions, but rather a quiet dignity in the weathered barns and the sturdy, unpretentious homes that dot the countryside. The true character of Browntown is found in the enduring spirit of its people and the subtle, enduring beauty of the land itself, a beauty that reveals itself not in dramatic pronouncements, but in the steady unfolding of seasons and the quiet continuity of life.
Live animated radar for Browntown 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 | Browntown, Lee County, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 34.203292°N, 80.316646°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 29010 |
| Area Code | 803, 839 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Browntown, South Carolina, 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 Browntown includes coordinates 34.203292°N, 80.316646°W, situated in Lee County. ZIP code 29010. Telephone area code: 803, 839. 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.