Quinn, South Dakota Weather
Quinn, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Quinn, Pennington County.
Full aviation weather for Quinn is published on the Philip Airport (KPHP) page, 42 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.
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.
Conditions reported at KPHP describe the airfield itself. Weather 42 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Quinn specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Quinn.
About Quinn, South Dakota
Quinn exists as a whisper on the vast South Dakota prairie, a place where the horizon seems to stretch into forever, unbroken save for the occasional, stoic silhouette of a windbreak or a solitary grain elevator. It lies 55.2 miles east of Rapid City, SD (from Rapid City, SD: bearing 96°T), and is situated 5.7 miles east of Wall. The land here rolls with a subtle, patient grandeur, a vast expanse of tawny grasses that shift and ripple under the immense, ever-changing sky. During the day, the sun glares with a bright, clean intensity, bleaching the muted colors of the landscape, but as dusk approaches, the air softens, imbuing the grasses with a burnished gold and casting long, inky shadows that lend a quiet drama to the rolling terrain. The silence here is not empty, but a resonant presence, punctuated only by the sigh of the wind and the distant call of a meadowlark. The history of Quinn is etched into the very soil by the relentless forces of agriculture and the enduring spirit of its people. This is a landscape shaped by the plow and the prairie, where the local economy has long been tethered to the cycles of wheat and cattle, a testament to the hardiness required to coax sustenance from this fertile yet demanding earth. While not a hub of booming industry, Quinn’s character is defined by a quiet resilience, a shared understanding forged in isolation and a reliance on the land that runs deep. The few buildings that comprise Quinn stand as markers against the immensity, each with a story of generations who have weathered droughts, celebrated harvests, and found a profound connection to this open, elemental country.
Live animated radar for Quinn 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 | Quinn, Pennington County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 43.988045°N, 102.126267°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57775 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Quinn, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Quinn, 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 Quinn includes coordinates 43.988045°N, 102.126267°W, situated in Pennington County. ZIP code 57775. Telephone area code: 605. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
