Waelder, Texas Weather
Waelder, 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 Waelder, Gonzales County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Waelder. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Waelder is published on the Smithville Crawford Municipal Airport (K84R) page, 39 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 Waelder 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 Waelder: Lockhart Municipal Airport (K50R) 40 km · Hallettsville Municipal Airport (K34R) 47 km · San Marcos Regional Airport (KHYI) 59 km
Conditions reported at K84R describe the airfield itself. Weather 39 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Waelder specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Waelder.
About Waelder, Texas
Waelder sits under a sky that can stretch for miles, a wide, pale blue canvas that often holds the bruised purples and fiery oranges of a Texas sunset. It lies 40.2 miles east-south-east of Kyle, TX (from Kyle, TX: bearing 120°T), and is situated 16.1 miles north-east of Gonzales. The land around Waelder is mostly flat, a patient earth that yields to the plow, punctuated by stands of mesquite and live oak that offer scant shade against the persistent sun. Here, the air itself feels seasoned, carrying the dry scent of sun-baked earth and, on days with a good breeze, the faint, sweet perfume of ripening crops. The houses of Waelder are spaced out, not crowded together, with wide yards that seem to welcome the vastness of the surrounding landscape, a quiet understanding between man and open country. The story of Waelder is one written in the soil and the sweat of generations who found their living here. It’s a place built on the backbone of agriculture, where cattle graze on pastures that have seen countless seasons, and fields of cotton and corn stretch to the horizon, their colors shifting with the light. The town’s small businesses, the diner where the coffee is always hot and the conversations easy, the hardware store that seems to hold a little of everything, are the steady pulse of Waelder’s economy, each one a small but vital thread in the larger fabric of the community. There's a quiet pride in Waelder, a sense of enduring resilience born from a history of hard work and a deep connection to the land that has sustained it.
Live animated radar for Waelder 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 | Waelder, Gonzales County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 29.693287°N, 97.299157°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78959 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Waelder, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Waelder, 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 Waelder includes coordinates 29.693287°N, 97.299157°W, situated in Gonzales County. ZIP code 78959. 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.
