Plainfield, IL Weather Forecast
Will County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Plainfield, 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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Plainfield, IL at a glance
Plainfield is home to about 47,448 people in Will County, across 25 square miles. It ranks 31st by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Oswego, 6 miles away.
- County
- Will County
- Population
- 47,448 2023 est.
- Land area
- 25 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,862
- Forecast point
- 41.6303°N, 88.2453°W
How well can the network see Plainfield?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 430 ft above Plainfield. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Plainfield show up clearly. Plainfield is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KLOT (Romeoville/Lewis Univ Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Plainfield
- Oswego, IL6 mi
- Romeoville, IL7 mi
- Crest Hill, IL8 mi
- Shorewood, IL8 mi
- Bolingbrook, IL8 mi
- Montgomery, IL9 mi
- Joliet, IL9 mi
- Naperville, IL9 mi
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