Rio Rancho, NM Weather Forecast
Sandoval County, New Mexico
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Rio Rancho, 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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Rio Rancho, NM at a glance
Rio Rancho is home to about 110,660 people in Sandoval County, across 103 square miles. It ranks 3rd by population of 43 places in New Mexico with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Corrales, 5 miles away.
- County
- Sandoval County
- Population
- 110,660 2023 est.
- Land area
- 103 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,071
- Forecast point
- 35.2851°N, 106.6989°W
How well can the network see Rio Rancho?
The nearest Doppler radar is KABX (Albuquerque, NM), to the SW. Its lowest scan passes about 610 ft above Rio Rancho. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Rio Rancho show up clearly. Rio Rancho is closer to its radar than 94% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KAEG (Albuquerque/Double Eagle Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Rio Rancho
- Corrales, NM5 mi
- Bernalillo, NM8 mi
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM9 mi
- Albuquerque, NM13 mi
- Edgewood, NM29 mi
- Bosque Farms, NM30 mi
- Peralta, NM32 mi
- Los Lunas, NM34 mi
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