Scottsdale, AZ Weather Forecast
Maricopa County, Arizona
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Scottsdale, 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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Scottsdale, AZ at a glance
Scottsdale is home to about 244,394 people in Maricopa County, across 184 square miles. It ranks 7th by population of 76 places in Arizona with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Fountain Hills, 9 miles away.
- County
- Maricopa County
- Population
- 244,394 2023 est.
- Land area
- 184 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,328
- Forecast point
- 33.6843°N, 111.8614°W
How well can the network see Scottsdale?
The nearest Doppler radar is KIWA (Phoenix, AZ), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,800 ft above Scottsdale. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Scottsdale show up clearly. Scottsdale is closer to its radar than 71% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSDL (Scottsdale Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Scottsdale
- Fountain Hills, AZ9 mi
- Carefree, AZ10 mi
- Paradise Valley, AZ11 mi
- Cave Creek, AZ13 mi
- Phoenix, AZ15 mi
- Tempe, AZ21 mi
- Mesa, AZ21 mi
- Glendale, AZ22 mi
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