Fair Haven, Vermont — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Fair Haven, Rutland County.
Full aviation weather for Fair Haven is published on the Rutland - Southern Vermont Regional Airport (KRUT) page, 26 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 Fair Haven 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 Fair Haven: Ticonderoga Municipal Airport (K4B6) 34 km · Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport (KGFL) 40 km · Middlebury State Airport (K6B0) 46 km · Heber Airpark (K30) 54 km
Conditions reported at KRUT describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fair Haven specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fair Haven.
Fair Haven lies where the land begins to soften, a valley carved by ancient waters, its hillsides a patchwork of deep greens and shadowed hollows. It lies 23.0 miles north-east of Queensbury, NY (from Queensbury, NY: bearing 49°T), and is situated 7.4 miles east-north-east of Whitehall. The air here carries the scent of damp earth and pine needles, a cool, clean breath that seems to settle deep in the lungs. Stone walls, weathered and softened by time, trace the edges of fields, remnants of a patient human hand against the wilder impulse of the forest. The Poultney River, a silver ribbon, threads its way through the landscape, its banks a haven for willows and the quick darting of kingfishers. Even on a still day, there's a sense of movement, a quiet hum of life in the rustling leaves and the distant murmur of the water. This is a place etched by industry and the resilience of its people. For generations, the slate quarries here have given their dark, gleaming stone to roofs and gravestones across the land, a legacy that still shapes the character of Fair Haven. You can see it in the sturdy brick buildings downtown, in the very bones of the older homes. The economy, once deeply tied to the earth's dark treasures, now finds new rhythms, but the imprint of that hard-won labor remains. The river, once a power source for mills, now offers a gentler kind of bounty, its quiet flow a constant reminder of the natural forces that have shaped this corner of Vermont.
Live animated radar for Fair Haven 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.
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| Location | Fair Haven, Rutland County, Vermont |
| Coordinates | 43.594789°N, 73.265666°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time |
| ZIP Code(s) | 05743 |
| Area Code | 802 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fair Haven, Vermont, 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 Fair Haven includes coordinates 43.594789°N, 73.265666°W, situated in Rutland County. ZIP code 05743. Telephone area code: 802. Timezone: Eastern Time.
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.