Cottonwood, Texas Weather
Cottonwood, 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 Cottonwood, Kaufman County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Cottonwood. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Cottonwood is published on the Dallas South Port Airport (KT13) page, 28 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 Cottonwood 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 Cottonwood: Terrell Municipal Airport (KTRL) 29 km · Ennis Municipal Airport (KF41) 30 km · Lancaster Airport (KLNC) 33 km · Mesquite Metro Airport (KHQZ) 34 km · C David Campbell Field Corsicana Municipal Airport (KCRS) 49 km
Conditions reported at KT13 describe the airfield itself. Weather 28 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cottonwood specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cottonwood.
About Cottonwood, Texas
Cottonwood lies in a landscape of subtle, low-lying hills, where the earth, a rich, dark loam, readily yields to the plough and the persistent Texas sun. It lies 20.0 miles south-south-east of Forney, TX (from Forney, TX: bearing 166°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south-south-west of Kaufman. The air here, especially in the late afternoons of spring, carries a faint, sweet scent of freshly turned soil and the distant, almost imperceptible hum of cicadas beginning their evening chorus. Scattered stands of post oak and mesquite punctuate the rolling terrain, their branches reaching out like gnarled hands against the vast, often crystalline blue of the sky. The land itself feels ancient and patient, a place where the wind shapes the grass in slow, deliberate waves, and the heat of the day seems to settle into the very bones of the earth. This particular stretch of Kaufman County has long been defined by its agricultural roots, a legacy etched into the very way the land is managed, with fields of cotton and sorghum stretching towards the horizon. The local economy, though diversified in recent years, still echoes the rhythm of the harvest, the quiet hum of machinery a familiar sound during certain seasons. Cottonwood itself, a place that has seen generations of families work this ground, holds a quiet resilience, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who have called it home. Its character is one of understated endurance, a community built on the steady labour of its people, where the pace of life is dictated more by the sun and seasons than by any clock.
Live animated radar for Cottonwood 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 | Cottonwood, Kaufman County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 32.467917°N, 96.38915°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 77872, 77808, 76691, 75158 |
| Area Code | 325, 214, 469 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cottonwood, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cottonwood, 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 Cottonwood includes coordinates 32.467917°N, 96.389150°W, situated in Kaufman County. ZIP code 77872, 77808, 76691, 75158. Telephone area code: 325, 214, 469. 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.
