Buffalo, NY Weather Forecast
Erie County, New York
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Buffalo, 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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Buffalo, NY at a glance
Buffalo is home to about 274,678 people in Erie County, across 40 square miles. It ranks 5th by population of 593 places in New York with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Sloan, 3 miles away.
- County
- Erie County
- Population
- 274,678 2023 est.
- Land area
- 40 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 6,802
- Forecast point
- 42.8925°N, 78.8597°W
How well can the network see Buffalo?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBUF (Buffalo, NY), to the ENE. Its lowest scan passes about 360 ft above Buffalo. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Buffalo show up clearly. Buffalo is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KBUF (Buffalo-Niagara Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Buffalo
- Sloan, NY3 mi
- Kenmore, NY5 mi
- Lackawanna, NY5 mi
- Cheektowaga, NY6 mi
- West Seneca, NY7 mi
- Blasdell, NY7 mi
- Williamsville, NY8 mi
- Depew, NY8 mi
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