Urbandale, IA Weather Forecast
Polk County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Urbandale, 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.
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Urbandale, IA at a glance
Urbandale is home to about 46,729 people in Polk County, across 23 square miles. It ranks 12th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Clive, 2 miles away.
- County
- Polk County
- Population
- 46,729 2023 est.
- Land area
- 23 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,072
- Forecast point
- 41.6368°N, 93.7798°W
How well can the network see Urbandale?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDMX (Des Moines, IA), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 350 ft above Urbandale. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Urbandale show up clearly. Urbandale is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KDSM (Des Moines Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Urbandale
- Clive, IA2 mi
- Grimes, IA3 mi
- Windsor Heights, IA4 mi
- Johnston, IA5 mi
- West Des Moines, IA6 mi
- Waukee, IA6 mi
- Des Moines, IA10 mi
- Polk City, IA10 mi
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