Butte, MT Weather Forecast
Silver Bow County, Montana
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Butte, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Butte, MT at a glance
Butte is home to about 35,701 people in Silver Bow County, across 716 square miles. It ranks 5th by population of 29 places in Montana with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, 27 miles away.
- County
- Silver Bow County
- Population
- 35,701 2023 est.
- Land area
- 716 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 50
- Forecast point
- 45.8962°N, 112.6601°W
How well can the network see Butte?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMSX (Missoula, MT), to the NW. Its lowest scan passes about 9,800 ft above Butte. At that range the beam overshoots the base of a storm. If a warning for Butte looks unsupported on radar, trust the warning.
The closest weather station is KBTM (Butte/Mooney Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Butte
- Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, MT27 mi
- Deer Lodge, MT35 mi
- Dillon, MT47 mi
- Helena, MT57 mi
- Belgrade, MT72 mi
- Hamilton, MT76 mi
- Salmon, ID78 mi
- Bozeman, MT79 mi
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