Sweet Home, Texas Weather
Sweet Home, 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 Sweet Home, Lee County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Sweet Home. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Sweet Home is published on the Giddings-Lee County Airport (KGYB) page, 18 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. 5 airfields within reach of Sweet Home 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 Sweet Home: Caldwell Municipal Airport (KRWV) 31 km · Brenham Municipal Airport (K11R) 43 km · H H Coffield Regional Airport (KRCK) 45 km · Easterwood Field (KCLL) 57 km
Conditions reported at KGYB describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sweet Home specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sweet Home.
About Sweet Home, Texas
Sweet Home rests in a landscape of rolling terrain, where the gentle slopes of Central Texas give way to broad pastures dotted with live oaks and mesquite. It lies 38.7 miles south-west of College Station, TX (from College Station, TX: bearing 229°T), and is situated 8.6 miles north-east of Giddings. The air here often carries the scent of sun-baked earth and the distant sweetness of blooming wildflowers, particularly in the spring. The sky above Sweet Home is a vast canvas, frequently painted with dramatic cloud formations that shift and reform with the passing hours, casting an ever-changing light upon the scattered farmhouses and fields. The land itself feels ancient, a quiet testament to the slow work of rain and wind, its soil a rich, dark loam that yields generously to the persistent touch of cultivation. The history of Sweet Home is deeply entwined with the agricultural spirit of Lee County, a place where cotton once reigned supreme and the echoes of those harvests still linger in the collective memory. Ranching and cattle farming remain vital to the local economy, the enduring heartbeat of this rural community. While no grand monuments mark its past, the character of Sweet Home is etched in the steadfastness of its people and the enduring traditions passed down through generations. The small businesses that serve the residents, from the local feed store to the corner diner, are more than just commercial enterprises; they are informal gathering places where the day's news is exchanged and the quiet rhythm of life in Sweet Home unfolds.
Live animated radar for Sweet Home 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 | Sweet Home, Lee County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 30.257436°N, 96.821368°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78155, 78942, 77987 |
| Area Code | 830, 409 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sweet Home, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sweet Home, 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 Sweet Home includes coordinates 30.257436°N, 96.821368°W, situated in Lee County. ZIP code 78155, 78942, 77987. Telephone area code: 830, 409. 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.
