Riverdale, IL Weather Forecast
Cook County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Riverdale, 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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Riverdale, IL at a glance
Riverdale is home to about 10,159 people in Cook County, across 3.6 square miles. It ranks 223rd by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Dixmoor, 2 miles away.
- County
- Cook County
- Population
- 10,159 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,842
- Forecast point
- 41.6427°N, 87.6356°W
How well can the network see Riverdale?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the W. Its lowest scan passes about 1,300 ft above Riverdale. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Riverdale show up clearly. Riverdale is closer to its radar than 80% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KIGQ (Chicago/Lansing Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Riverdale
- Dixmoor, IL2 mi
- Calumet Park, IL2 mi
- Dolton, IL2 mi
- Blue Island, IL3 mi
- Harvey, IL3 mi
- Posen, IL3 mi
- South Holland, IL4 mi
- Robbins, IL4 mi
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