Mission Hill, South Dakota Weather
Mission Hill, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mission Hill, Yankton County.
Full aviation weather for Mission Hill is published on the Chan Gurney Municipal Airport (KYKN) 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. 3 airfields within reach of Mission Hill 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 Mission Hill: Harold Davidson Field (KVMR) 33 km · Hartington Municipal Airport / Bud Becker Field (K0B4) 36 km
Conditions reported at KYKN describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mission Hill specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mission Hill.
About Mission Hill, South Dakota
Mission Hill rests on a broad, gently rolling expanse of South Dakota prairie, where the earth's contours rise and fall in soft, sweeping lines under an immense, ever-changing sky. It lies 52.2 miles south-west of Sioux Falls, SD (from Sioux Falls, SD: bearing 214°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east-north-east of Yankton. The landscape here is defined by an openness that stretches to the horizon, punctuated by the occasional solitary cottonwood or the darker green smudge of a farmstead windbreak, offering a sense of quiet permanence against the vastness. The air itself carries a peculiar stillness, especially in the late afternoon when the sun, a molten disc of gold, begins its slow descent, casting long, ethereal shadows across the fields and lending a luminous quality to the straw-colored grasses that dominate the terrain. This is a place where the land feels ancient and deeply patient, a silent witness to the passage of seasons and the slow work of wind and water. The history of Mission Hill is interwoven with the enduring spirit of the land and the people who have sought to cultivate it, a story that echoes with the rhythms of agricultural enterprise and the quiet perseverance of frontier life. Once a hub for the surrounding farms, its local economy has historically been tied to the bounty of the prairie soil, with grain elevators standing as stoic sentinels against the sky, remnants of a time when rail lines were the arteries of commerce. While the pace of life in Mission Hill is measured, a subtle energy persists, born from the deep-rooted connection to the earth and the generations of families who have called this place home, each contributing their own quiet chapter to the unfolding narrative of this corner of Yankton County.
Live animated radar for Mission Hill 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 | Mission Hill, Yankton County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 42.92333°N, 97.278943°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57046 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mission Hill, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mission Hill, 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 Mission Hill includes coordinates 42.923330°N, 97.278943°W, situated in Yankton County. ZIP code 57046. 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.
