Granite City, IL Weather Forecast
Madison County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Granite City, 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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Granite City, IL at a glance
Granite City is home to about 26,908 people in Madison County, across 19 square miles. It ranks 77th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Madison, 3 miles away.
- County
- Madison County
- Population
- 26,908 2023 est.
- Land area
- 19 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,415
- Forecast point
- 38.7293°N, 90.1255°W
How well can the network see Granite City?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLSX (St. Louis, MO), to the W. Its lowest scan passes about 1,800 ft above Granite City. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Granite City show up clearly. Granite City is closer to its radar than 71% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KCPS (St Louis/Downtown Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Granite City
- Madison, IL3 mi
- Pontoon Beach, IL3 mi
- Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO6 mi
- Collinsville, IL7 mi
- Jennings, MO7 mi
- East St. Louis, IL8 mi
- Glen Carbon, IL8 mi
- Dellwood, MO8 mi
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