Onida, South Dakota Weather
Onida, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Onida, Sully County.
Full aviation weather for Onida is published on the Gettysburg Municipal Airport (K0D8) page, 32 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. 2 airfields within reach of Onida 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 Onida: Pierre Regional Airport (KPIR) 40 km
Conditions reported at K0D8 describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Onida specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Onida.
About Onida, South Dakota
Onida sits on the expansive South Dakota prairie, a place where the horizon stretches with an almost audacious breadth, meeting a sky that can shift from the palest robin's egg blue to the deepest, bruised violet in the span of an afternoon. It lies 92.9 miles west-south-west of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 236°T), and is situated 27.5 miles north-north-east of Pierre. The land itself is a study in subtle contours, rolling gently like the back of a sleeping giant, dotted with the hardy, resilient grasses that define this high plains country. The air here, especially in the hush of early morning or the golden hour before sunset, carries a clean, crisp scent, a blend of dry earth and the faint, sweet perfume of distant wildflowers, a testament to the sheer, unadulterated openness that surrounds Onida. The history of Onida is as deeply rooted in the soil as the wheat fields that shimmer in the summer sun, a story of homesteaders who wrestled a living from this land, their tenacity etched into the very spirit of the place. This agricultural heartland, where cattle graze on vast ranches and crops are sown with patient expectation, forms the backbone of Onida's economy, a quiet diligence that underpins the everyday lives of its residents. The town itself, with its modest Main Street, feels like a repository of shared memories, a place where generations have walked the same sidewalks, their footsteps echoing in the collective consciousness, a quiet, enduring presence against the grand, indifferent canvas of the prairie.
Live animated radar for Onida 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.
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| Location | Onida, Sully County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 44.708038°N, 100.059845°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57564 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Onida, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Onida, 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 Onida includes coordinates 44.708038°N, 100.059845°W, situated in Sully County. ZIP code 57564. 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.
