Lafayette, Wisconsin Weather
Lafayette, Wisconsin — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Lafayette, Lafayette County.
Full aviation weather for Lafayette is published on the Platteville Municipal Airport (KPVB) page, 31 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette: Iowa County Airport (KMRJ) 32 km · Hird Airport (K9W7) 39 km · Lancaster Municipal Airport (K73C) 52 km · Dubuque Regional Airport (KDBQ) 58 km
Conditions reported at KPVB describe the airfield itself. Weather 31 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lafayette specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lafayette.
About Lafayette, Wisconsin
Lafayette sits where the land begins to roll, the broad, open fields of Wisconsin’s southwest giving way to a more sculpted terrain. It lies 22.9 miles west of Green, WI (from Green, WI: bearing 270°T), and is situated 4.3 miles south-south-east of Darlington. Here, the soil is a deep, rich loam, promising and yielding, and the air carries the clean scent of turned earth and distant pine. The horizon is a generous sweep, often painted with the bruised purples and soft oranges of a prairie sunset, and the quiet here is profound, broken only by the whisper of wind through the tall grasses or the distant lowing of cattle. The houses are sturdy, built to weather the seasons, their porches often worn smooth by generations of feet, and the pace of life feels measured, like a breath drawn deep and held. The history of Lafayette is etched in its quiet persistence, a story of farmers and families who worked this land from its earliest days. The local economy still leans on the bounty of the soil, with dairy farms and crop production forming the backbone of the community, the hum of tractors a familiar sound in the summer months. Old barns, weathered and strong, stand as silent witnesses to the agricultural heritage that shaped this place, their red paint faded to a gentle blush. While Lafayette may not boast grand monuments, its distinctiveness lies in this enduring connection to the land, a quiet strength that has seen it through changing times, a place where the cycle of seasons dictates the rhythm of days.
Live animated radar for Lafayette 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 | Lafayette, Lafayette County, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 42.62932°N, 90.074677°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 53530, 53541 |
| Area Code | 715 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Lafayette, Wisconsin Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lafayette, Wisconsin, 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 Lafayette includes coordinates 42.629320°N, 90.074677°W, situated in Lafayette County. ZIP code 53530, 53541. Telephone area code: 715. 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.
