Sweetwater, Tennessee Weather
Sweetwater, Tennessee — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sweetwater, Monroe County.
Full aviation weather for Sweetwater is published on the Monroe County Airport (KMNV) page, 10 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. 6 airfields within reach of Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater: McMinn County Airport (KMMI) 24 km · Rockwood Municipal Airport (KRKW) 41 km · Mark Anton Airport (K2A0) 44 km · McGhee Tyson Airport (KTYS) 48 km · Cleveland Regional Jetport (KRZR) 53 km
Conditions reported at KMNV describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sweetwater specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sweetwater.
About Sweetwater, Tennessee
Sweetwater lies in a gentle fold of eastern Tennessee's landscape, where the rolling foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains begin to soften their ascent. It lies 17.2 miles south-south-east of Roane, TN (from Roane, TN: bearing 160°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south-east of Johnson. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries the sweet, earthy scent of damp soil and pine needles, a perfume that clings to the broad, sun-drenched fields and the shadowed edges of the hardwood forests. Creeks, true to the town’s name, meander through the terrain, their waters cool and clear, reflecting the wide, often impossibly blue sky that stretches over Sweetwater. The land itself feels ancient and yielding, a place where the contours of the earth speak of slow, patient weathering, and where the very light seems to linger a moment longer before succumbing to the evening’s embrace. This corner of Monroe County has long been tied to the bounty of the land, its history etched not in grand monuments, but in the persistent cycle of planting and harvest. Early settlers, drawn by the fertile soil and abundant water, found a place to put down roots, and the agricultural spirit of Sweetwater has endured, with farms still dotting the landscape, their fields a patchwork of green and gold throughout the growing seasons. Though industry has ebbed and flowed, leaving behind echoes in the quiet hum of machinery that can sometimes be heard from the edges of town, the heart of Sweetwater remains connected to the earth. The town carries a quiet pride, a sense of enduring presence that feels as natural and unforced as the slow, steady flow of its namesake waters, a place where the past whispers in the rustling leaves and the present unfolds with a steady, unhurried breath.
Live animated radar for Sweetwater 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 | Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee |
| Coordinates | 35.601464°N, 84.461039°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 38462, 37874 |
| Area Code | 901, 865 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sweetwater, Tennessee Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sweetwater, Tennessee, 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 Sweetwater includes coordinates 35.601464°N, 84.461039°W, situated in Monroe County. ZIP code 38462, 37874. Telephone area code: 901, 865. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
