Longboat Key, FL Weather Forecast
Sarasota County, Florida
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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.
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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.
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Longboat Key, FL at a glance
Longboat Key is home to about 7,488 people in Sarasota County, across 4.1 square miles. It ranks 191st by population of 275 places in Florida with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Bradenton, 7 miles away.
- County
- Sarasota County
- Population
- 7,488 2023 est.
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,836
- Forecast point
- 27.4005°N, 82.6442°W
How well can the network see Longboat Key?
The nearest Doppler radar is KTBW (Tampa, FL), to the NE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,500 ft above Longboat Key. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Longboat Key show up clearly. Longboat Key is closer to its radar than 77% 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 Longboat Key
- Bradenton, FL7 mi
- Sarasota, FL8 mi
- Holmes Beach, FL9 mi
- Palmetto, FL10 mi
- St. Pete Beach, FL23 mi
- Venice, FL24 mi
- Gulfport, FL24 mi
- St. Petersburg, FL25 mi
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