Sundance, Wyoming Weather
Sundance, Wyoming — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sundance, Crook County.
Full aviation weather for Sundance is published on the Hulett Municipal Airport (KW43) page, 32 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 Sundance 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 Sundance: Black Hills Airport-Clyde Ice Field (KSPF) 48 km · Belle Fourche Municipal Airport (KEFC) 55 km · Mondell Field (KECS) 58 km
Conditions reported at KW43 describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sundance specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sundance.
About Sundance, Wyoming
Sundance sprawls across a wide, sun-drenched valley, a landscape etched with the raw bones of the Wyoming earth. It lies 56.2 miles east of Gillette, WY (from Gillette, WY: bearing 81°T), and is situated 26.1 miles west-south-west of Spearfish. Rolling hills, cloaked in the muted greens and browns of hardy prairie grasses, rise and fall towards the distant, jagged peaks of the Black Hills, their summits often dusted with a faint haze of blue. The air here carries a dry, mineral tang, a scent of dust and distant pine, and the immense, unbroken sky presses down with a palpable weight, the kind that makes you feel both small and profoundly connected to the vastness. Cottonwood trees, their leaves rustling like brittle paper in the constant breeze, line the banks of the few intermittent creeks that thread through the terrain, offering scant but precious shade. The story of Sundance is bound to the land and the grit of those who sought to tame it. Originally a stop along the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage Line, its roots are tangled with the boom-and-bust cycles of the late 19th century, a time when prospectors and ranchers alike wrestled with this unforgiving frontier. Today, the local economy still leans on the strength of agriculture – cattle ranching and the cultivation of hardy crops that can withstand the region's often harsh climate. Sundance itself maintains a quiet, unhurried character, a place where the rhythm of daily life is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the enduring spirit of its people. The imposing Crook County Courthouse, a solid sandstone structure, stands as a silent sentinel, a reminder of the enduring legal and civic foundations laid in this remote corner of the West.
Live animated radar for Sundance 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 | Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming |
| Coordinates | 44.406375°N, 104.375782°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 82729 |
| Area Code | 307 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sundance, Wyoming Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sundance, Wyoming, 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 Sundance includes coordinates 44.406375°N, 104.375782°W, situated in Crook County. ZIP code 82729. Telephone area code: 307. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
