Bradenton, FL Weather Forecast
Manatee County, Florida
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Bradenton, 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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Bradenton, FL at a glance
Bradenton is home to about 57,076 people in Manatee County, across 14 square miles. It ranks 56th by population of 275 places in Florida with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Palmetto, 2 miles away.
- County
- Manatee County
- Population
- 57,076 2023 est.
- Land area
- 14 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,981
- Forecast point
- 27.4898°N, 82.5768°W
How well can the network see Bradenton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KTBW (Tampa, FL), to the NE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,000 ft above Bradenton. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Bradenton show up clearly. Bradenton is closer to its radar than 87% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSRQ (Sarasota-Bradenton Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Bradenton
- Palmetto, FL2 mi
- Longboat Key, FL7 mi
- Holmes Beach, FL9 mi
- Sarasota, FL11 mi
- St. Pete Beach, FL19 mi
- St. Petersburg, FL19 mi
- Gulfport, FL20 mi
- South Pasadena, FL21 mi
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