Lake City, South Dakota Weather
Lake City, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Lake City, Marshall County.
Full aviation weather for Lake City is published on the Britton Municipal Airport (KBTN) page, 27 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 Lake 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 Lake City: Sisseton Municipal Airport (K8D3) 33 km · The Sigurd Anderson Airport (K1D7) 49 km · Groton Municipal Airport (K2E6) 57 km · Gwinner Roger Melroe Field (KGWR) 58 km
Conditions reported at KBTN describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lake City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lake City.
About Lake City, South Dakota
Lake City breathes the wide, open air of northeastern South Dakota, a place where the horizon stretches and the sky feels impossibly vast. It lies 54.9 miles east-north-east of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 70°T), and is situated 18.1 miles west-north-west of Sisseton. The land itself is a study in gentle, sweeping contours, fields of ripening grain bowing in the constant prairie breeze, punctuated by the deeper, richer greens of cottonwood groves that cluster near the water’s edge. The namesake lake, a broad, placid expanse, mirrors the ever-shifting heavens, its surface sometimes a steely grey under cloud cover, other times a dazzling, sun-drenched blue. Evenings here often bring a hush, a palpable stillness as the sun dips below the rim of the world, painting the western sky in hues of rose and lavender, and the air, once warm and alive with the hum of insects, grows crisp and carries the faint, sweet scent of drying grass. The story of Lake City is one interwoven with the land and the determined spirit of those who have coaxed a living from it. Early settlers, drawn by the fertile soil and the promise of a fresh start, established a community that has always found its rhythm in the seasons and the demands of agriculture. While farming remains the bedrock of the local economy, the steady presence of the lake has also fostered a quieter vein of activity, drawing those who appreciate the tranquility and the opportunities for recreation it provides. The modest Main Street, with its well-kept storefronts, speaks of a long-held resilience, a place where neighbors still greet each other by name and the pace of life is measured not by the clock, but by the rising and setting of the sun.
Live animated radar for Lake 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Lake City, Marshall County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 45.725232°N, 97.41454°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57247 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Lake City, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lake City, South Dakota, 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 Lake City includes coordinates 45.725232°N, 97.414540°W, situated in Marshall County. ZIP code 57247. Telephone area code: 605. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
