Lake Charles, LA Weather Forecast
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lake Charles, 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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Lake Charles, LA at a glance
Lake Charles is home to about 79,633 people in Calcasieu Parish, across 47 square miles. It ranks 5th by population of 105 places in Louisiana with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Westlake, 5 miles away.
- County
- Calcasieu Parish
- Population
- 79,633 2023 est.
- Land area
- 47 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,678
- Forecast point
- 30.1990°N, 93.2108°W
How well can the network see Lake Charles?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLCH (Lake Charles, LA), to the S. Its lowest scan passes about 250 ft above Lake Charles. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Lake Charles show up clearly. Lake Charles is closer to its radar than 99% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KCWF (Chenault Intl). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Lake Charles
- Westlake, LA5 mi
- Sulphur, LA9 mi
- Iowa, LA12 mi
- Vinton, LA22 mi
- DeQuincy, LA22 mi
- Welsh, LA24 mi
- Orange, TX33 mi
- Lake Arthur, LA33 mi
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