Wichita, KS Weather Forecast
Sedgwick County, Kansas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Wichita, 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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Wichita, KS at a glance
Wichita is home to about 396,119 people in Sedgwick County, across 163 square miles. It is the largest of 99 places in Kansas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Bel Aire, 8 miles away.
- County
- Sedgwick County
- Population
- 396,119 2023 est.
- Land area
- 163 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,431
- Forecast point
- 37.6906°N, 97.3458°W
How well can the network see Wichita?
The nearest Doppler radar is KICT (Wichita, KS), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 290 ft above Wichita. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Wichita show up clearly. Wichita is closer to its radar than 98% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KICT (Wichita/Eisenhower Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Wichita
- Bel Aire, KS8 mi
- Park City, KS8 mi
- Maize, KS8 mi
- Haysville, KS9 mi
- Valley Center, KS10 mi
- Derby, KS10 mi
- Andover, KS12 mi
- Goddard, KS12 mi
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