Port Mansfield, Texas Weather
Port Mansfield, 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 Port Mansfield, Willacy County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Port Mansfield. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Port Mansfield is published on the Valley International Airport (KHRL) page, 43 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. 2 airfields within reach of Port Mansfield 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 Port Mansfield: Port Isabel Cameron County Airport (KPIL) 44 km
Conditions reported at KHRL describe the airfield itself. Weather 43 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Port Mansfield specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Port Mansfield.
About Port Mansfield, Texas
Port Mansfield exhales a breath of salt-laced air across the low-lying coastal plain, where the arid scrubland surrenders to the shimmering expanse of the Laguna Madre. It lies 30.2 miles north-north-east of Harlingen, TX (from Harlingen, TX: bearing 34°T), and is situated 22.7 miles east-north-east of Raymondville. The sun, a molten disc, bleeds across the western sky each evening, casting long, skeletal shadows from the sparse mesquite trees and painting the shallow waters in hues of rose and bruised violet. A quiet tenacity defines this place, a resilience born of its proximity to the Gulf and its embrace by the vast, flat terrain. The very character of Port Mansfield is etched into the weathered planks of its docks and the sun-bleached paint of its fishing boats, a testament to a life lived in close communion with the water and the sky. This stretch of coast, once a wilder frontier, has long been shaped by the allure of the sea and the bounty it offers. Port Mansfield thrives on the ebb and flow of its maritime heritage, its economy intimately tied to the pursuit of red drum and speckled trout that navigate the labyrinthine channels of the bay. The ghost of forgotten settlements whispers on the breeze, hinting at eras when this locale was a more transient outpost, a place of passage rather than permanence. Today, it is a haven for anglers and birdwatchers, a place where the rustle of cordgrass and the distant cry of a gull mark the passage of time, a quiet corner of Texas where the wildness of the coast still holds sway.
Live animated radar for Port Mansfield 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 | Port Mansfield, Willacy County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 26.554788°N, 97.424981°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78598 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Port Mansfield, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Port Mansfield, 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 Port Mansfield includes coordinates 26.554788°N, 97.424981°W, situated in Willacy County. ZIP code 78598. Telephone area code: 830. 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.
