Palacios, Texas Weather
Palacios, 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 Palacios, Matagorda County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Palacios. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Palacios is published on the Palacios Municipal Airport (KPSX) page, 4 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. 4 airfields within reach of Palacios 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 Palacios: Bay City Regional Airport (KBYY) 45 km · Calhoun County Airport (KPKV) 46 km · Jackson County Airport (K26R) 48 km
Conditions reported at KPSX describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Palacios specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Palacios.
About Palacios, Texas
Palacios rests on the Texas coast, a place where the sky seems to stretch forever, meeting the Gulf's vastness in a hazy embrace. It lies 48.1 miles east of Victoria, TX (from Victoria, TX: bearing 98°T), and is situated 19.7 miles south-south-west of Markham. The air here carries the briny tang of the sea, mingling with the scent of marsh grasses that fringe the labyrinthine bays and shallow waterways. This is a land of low horizons, where the sun burns with a fierce intensity in the summer months, softening to a molten gold as it dips below the western edge of the Matagorda Bay system, painting the clouds in strokes of apricot and rose. The land itself is a forgiving canvas, flat and yielding, crisscrossed by channels and bayous, its character shaped by the constant ebb and flow of tides. Even the wind, when it blows, seems to carry the whispers of distant voyages and the patient murmur of water against mud. Founded with dreams of a bustling port, Palacios has, over its history, found its fortunes tied to the bounty of the sea and the fertile earth. Early settlers were drawn by the promise of fishing and farming, and the rhythm of the town still echoes that connection. The local economy, though diversified, retains a deep reverence for its maritime heritage; shrimp boats, their nets neatly furled, often dot the horizon, a constant reminder of the lifeblood drawn from the surrounding waters. The town’s character is one of quiet resilience, a place where life moves at a cadence dictated by the seasons and the tides, where community bonds are as strong as the pilings that support its docks. The old buildings, some bearing the patina of decades, stand as silent witnesses to the generations that have called Palacios home, their stories whispered on the warm, humid breeze.
Live animated radar for Palacios 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 | Palacios, Matagorda County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 28.708046°N, 96.217467°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 77465 |
| Area Code | 281 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Palacios, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Palacios, 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 Palacios includes coordinates 28.708046°N, 96.217467°W, situated in Matagorda County. ZIP code 77465. 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. 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.
