Olanta, South Carolina Weather
Olanta, South Carolina — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Olanta, Florence County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Olanta.
About Olanta, South Carolina
Olanta sits in a landscape where the earth breathes a humid sigh, a place of low, flat terrain where the sky feels vast and often a hazy, luminous dome. It lies 20.4 miles south-south-west of Florence, SC (from Florence, SC: bearing 208°T), and is situated 5.8 miles east-north-east of Turbeville. Pines, their needles a muted green against the often pale blue, stand sentinel over fields of cotton and corn, their white bolls or golden tassels stretching towards the horizon. The air here carries the scent of damp soil after a summer shower and the faint, sweet perfume of blooming honeysuckle that drapes itself over weathered fences. Sunlight, when it breaks through the haze, falls in broad, warm swathes, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the quiet air of the unpaved roads that thread through the scattered homesteads and small clusters of buildings that make up Olanta. The history of Olanta is etched not in grand monuments but in the slow, steady rhythm of agriculture that has long been its heartbeat, a legacy of generations working this fertile, sandy loam. For decades, cotton was king, its white harvest a familiar sight against the green fields, and though the landscape has diversified, farming remains the bedrock of the local economy, with corn and soybeans now sharing the fertile ground. The Pecan is also a significant crop, its trees dotting the landscape and offering a more recent chapter to the agricultural story of Olanta. Life here unfolds with a quiet persistence, a testament to the enduring spirit of a community shaped by the land and the seasons, where the occasional rumble of a passing train is often the loudest sound to break the afternoon stillness.
Live animated radar for Olanta and surroundings — RainViewer.
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| Location | Olanta, Florence County, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 33.935438°N, 79.93257°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 29114 |
| Area Code | 803 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Olanta, South Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Olanta, South Carolina, 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 Olanta includes coordinates 33.935438°N, 79.932570°W, situated in Florence County. ZIP code 29114. Telephone area code: 803. 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.
