Rantoul, IL Weather Forecast
Champaign County, Illinois
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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.
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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Rantoul, IL at a glance
Rantoul is home to about 11,956 people in Champaign County, across 8.5 square miles. It ranks 198th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Paxton, 11 miles away.
- County
- Champaign County
- Population
- 11,956 2023 est.
- Land area
- 8.5 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,408
- Forecast point
- 40.3026°N, 88.1549°W
How well can the network see Rantoul?
The nearest Doppler radar is KILX (Lincoln, IL), to the W. Its lowest scan passes about 4,900 ft above Rantoul. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Rantoul can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KTIP (Rantoul/Chanute AFB). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Rantoul
- Paxton, IL11 mi
- Urbana, IL13 mi
- St. Joseph, IL14 mi
- Champaign, IL14 mi
- Mahomet, IL15 mi
- Gibson City, IL16 mi
- Savoy, IL18 mi
- Tolono, IL22 mi
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