Orange, NJ Weather Forecast
Essex County, New Jersey
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Orange, 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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Orange, NJ at a glance
Orange is home to about 33,787 people in Essex County, across 2.2 square miles. It ranks 68th by population of 450 places in New Jersey with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is East Orange, 1 miles away.
- County
- Essex County
- Population
- 33,787 2023 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 15,268
- Forecast point
- 40.7680°N, 74.2357°W
How well can the network see Orange?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDIX (Philadelphia, PA), to the S. Its lowest scan passes about 4,300 ft above Orange. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Orange can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KEWR (Newark Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Orange
- East Orange, NJ1 mi
- South Orange Village, NJ2 mi
- West Orange, NJ2 mi
- Glen Ridge, NJ3 mi
- Maplewood, NJ3 mi
- Irvington, NJ3 mi
- Bloomfield, NJ4 mi
- Montclair, NJ4 mi
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