Union, South Carolina Weather
Union, 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 Union, Newberry County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Union.
About Union, South Carolina
Union is a place where the Piedmont's rolling hills begin to soften, a landscape punctuated by the gentle rise and fall of cultivated fields and the dark, verdant promise of pine forests. It lies 33.9 miles west-north-west of Columbia, SC (from Columbia, SC: bearing 303°T), and is situated 5.0 miles east of Newberry. The air here, especially in the languid afternoons of late summer, hangs thick and sweet with the scent of sun-baked earth and ripening corn, carrying the faint, melodic hum of cicadas. Oak and hickory trees, ancient sentinels with bark like the wrinkled hides of elephants, stand sentinel over the occasional, clear-running creek, their leaves catching the sunlight in a thousand shifting, emerald hues. The sky above often stretches in an immense, pale blue dome, occasionally broken by the slow drift of cotton-ball clouds, imbuing the entire scene with a quiet, enduring grace. The history of Union is deeply entwined with the agricultural heart of South Carolina, its economy long shaped by the cultivation of cotton and later, other crops, a legacy still visible in the broad, open fields that dominate the surrounding terrain. Generations have worked this soil, their lives a quiet testament to the enduring partnership between humanity and the land, a rhythm that continues to pulse through the town's modest commercial district. While manufacturing has found a foothold, adding a different kind of industry to the area, the pervasive sense of community, fostered by shared history and a slower pace of life, remains a distinctive characteristic. Union carries the echoes of its past, a quiet resilience woven into the very fabric of its existence, where progress and tradition walk hand in hand.
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| Location | Union, Newberry County, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 34.268475°N, 81.532049°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 29720, 29108, 29379 |
| Area Code | 803, 864 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Union, South Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Union, 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 Union includes coordinates 34.268475°N, 81.532049°W, situated in Newberry County. ZIP code 29720, 29108, 29379. Telephone area code: 803, 864. 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.
