Saltville, Virginia Weather
Saltville, Virginia — 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 Saltville, Smyth County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Saltville. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Saltville is published on the Tazewell County Airport (KJFZ) page, 20 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 Saltville 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 Saltville: Virginia Highlands Airport (KVJI) 32 km · Mountain Empire Airport (KMKJ) 37 km · Johnson County Airport (K6A4) 52 km · Ashe County Airport (KGEV) 59 km
Conditions reported at KJFZ describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Saltville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Saltville.
About Saltville, Virginia
Saltville sits in a valley that feels like a scooped-out bowl, cradled by the gentle, wooded slopes of Southwest Virginia. It lies 30.8 miles north-east of Bristol, TN (from Bristol, TN: bearing 50°T), and is situated 7.2 miles north-west of Chilhowie. The air here, especially after a rain, carries the clean scent of damp earth and pine, a persistent perfume that clings to the narrow streets. The landscape is a quiet study in green, where the rolling hills, softened by decades of growth, give way to flatter ground along the banks of the Middle Fork of the Holston River, its waters a cool, muted silver under the often-overcast sky. Even on a bright day, a certain hush settles over Saltville, a stillness that seems to emanate from the surrounding mountains. This valley has long been a place of value, its ancient salt springs drawing people for millennia. The discovery and exploitation of these springs by the Olin Corporation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries shaped the very character of Saltville, transforming it from a quiet settlement into a bustling industrial hub. Though the large-scale extraction of salt and its related chemical industries have faded, a sense of that productive past lingers, a quiet echo in the sturdy brick buildings and the enduring resilience of its people. The legacy of industry, and the natural bounty that fueled it, continues to define the economic pulse of Saltville, a place where the land’s gifts are still, in their own way, deeply appreciated.
Live animated radar for Saltville 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 | Saltville, Smyth County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 36.881503°N, 81.762064°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 24370 |
| Area Code | 276 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Saltville, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Saltville, Virginia, 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 Saltville includes coordinates 36.881503°N, 81.762064°W, situated in Smyth County. ZIP code 24370. Telephone area code: 276. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
