Lafayette, IN Weather Forecast
Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lafayette, 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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Lafayette, IN at a glance
Lafayette is home to about 71,216 people in Tippecanoe County, across 29 square miles. It ranks 10th by population of 175 places in Indiana with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is West Lafayette, 4 miles away.
- County
- Tippecanoe County
- Population
- 71,216 2023 est.
- Land area
- 29 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,424
- Forecast point
- 40.3994°N, 86.8628°W
How well can the network see Lafayette?
The nearest Doppler radar is KIND (Indianapolis, IN), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,200 ft above Lafayette. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Lafayette can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KFKR (Frankfort Muni). Far enough that current conditions for Lafayette are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Lafayette
- West Lafayette, IN4 mi
- Delphi, IN16 mi
- Frankfort, IN20 mi
- Attica, IN22 mi
- Monticello, IN24 mi
- Crawfordsville, IN25 mi
- Covington, IN33 mi
- Lebanon, IN33 mi
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