Collegeport, Texas Weather
Collegeport, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Collegeport, Matagorda County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Collegeport.
About Collegeport, Texas
Collegeport lies where the vastness of Texas begins to yield to the Gulf's salty breath, a place where the land stretches out in wide, low-lying plains under an immense, ever-shifting sky. It lies 49.6 miles west-south-west of Lake Jackson, TX (from Lake Jackson, TX: bearing 245°T), and is situated 2.8 miles east-north-east of Palacios. The air here carries a perpetual whisper of the nearby waters, a humid embrace that softens the edges of the day and lends a pearlescent sheen to the distant horizon. Fields of green, punctuated by the stoic silhouettes of live oaks, unfurl towards the coast, their grasses rustling with a dry, papery sound that is the constant murmur of this landscape. The light, particularly as it bleeds into evening, paints the sky in bruised purples and molten golds, reflecting off the shallow bays and tidal flats that stitch the land to the sea. This particular stretch of Matagorda County was once envisioned as a grand academic and agricultural hub, a bold experiment in communal living and learning that drew ambitious minds and eager hands in the early twentieth century. Though the lofty college campus never fully materialized as planned, the spirit of its founding lingers in the quiet persistence of Collegeport's inhabitants. The local economy, once tied to the dreams of education and fertile soil, has since found its footing in the bounty of the sea and the rich earth, with fishing fleets returning with their catches and the land still yielding its harvest under the generous sun. The echoes of those pioneering days are subtle, like the worn planks of a forgotten pier, but they speak of a resilience and a unique character that defines Collegeport.
Live animated radar for Collegeport 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 | Collegeport, Matagorda County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 28.725267°N, 96.174966°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 77428 |
| Area Code | 281 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Collegeport, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Collegeport, Texas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Collegeport includes coordinates 28.725267°N, 96.174966°W, situated in Matagorda County. ZIP code 77428. Telephone area code: 281. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
