Big Sandy, Texas Weather
Big Sandy, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Big Sandy, Upshur County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Big Sandy. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Big Sandy is published on the Gladewater Municipal Airport (K07F) page, 14 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 Big Sandy 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 Big Sandy: Fox Stephens Field Gilmer Municipal Airport (KJXI) 20 km · Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (KTYR) 38 km · Mineola Wisener Field (K3F9) 39 km · Wood County Airport - Collins Field (KJDD) 40 km · Winnsboro Municipal Airport (KF51) 43 km
Conditions reported at K07F describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Big Sandy specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Big Sandy.
About Big Sandy, Texas
Big Sandy unfolds across a gentle, rolling landscape where the piney woods of East Texas begin their slow surrender to broader horizons. It lies 19.6 miles north-east of Tyler, TX (from Tyler, TX: bearing 35°T), and is situated 5.6 miles east of Hawkins. The air here, especially in the long, luminous afternoons of late summer, carries a faint, sweet perfume of sun-baked earth and the resinous scent of aging pines, a fragrance that clings to the weathered wood of the few scattered houses. Creek beds, often dry or reduced to trickles of amber water under the indifferent sun, snake through the terrain, their banks lined with tenacious scrub oaks and the occasional, proud magnolia. The land itself seems to exhale a quiet patience, a sense of enduring the slow, deliberate pulse of seasons, where the sky, a vast canvas of shifting blues and bruised purples at dusk, feels both boundless and intimately present. This is a place where the echoes of its past are not shouted but whispered. Big Sandy's history is woven with the quiet industry of agriculture, particularly cotton and cattle, and the deeper, more resonant hum of oil exploration that once pulsed through the region, leaving behind a subtle, almost forgotten imprint. The local economy, now more diversified, still finds its roots in the land and in the resilient spirit of its people, who have learned to adapt and thrive. There are no grand monuments here, but a distinct character forged in the shared experience of small-town life, a place where the rhythm of the day is dictated by the sun and the quiet comings and goings of neighbors, a subtle testament to a resilience that runs deep.
Live animated radar for Big Sandy 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 | Big Sandy, Upshur County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 32.583752°N, 95.108833°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 75755, 75797 |
| Area Code | 903 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Big Sandy, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Big Sandy, Texas, 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 Big Sandy includes coordinates 32.583752°N, 95.108833°W, situated in Upshur County. ZIP code 75755, 75797. Telephone area code: 903. 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.
