Rochester, NY Weather Forecast
Monroe County, New York
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Rochester, 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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Rochester, NY at a glance
Rochester is home to about 207,274 people in Monroe County, across 36 square miles. It ranks 8th by population of 593 places in New York with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Irondequoit, 4 miles away.
- County
- Monroe County
- Population
- 207,274 2023 est.
- Land area
- 36 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 5,796
- Forecast point
- 43.1699°N, 77.6169°W
How well can the network see Rochester?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBUF (Buffalo, NY), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 4,400 ft above Rochester. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Rochester can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KROC (Rochester Intl Arpt). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Rochester
- Irondequoit, NY4 mi
- Brighton, NY4 mi
- Gates, NY5 mi
- Greece, NY7 mi
- East Rochester, NY8 mi
- Henrietta, NY8 mi
- Chili, NY9 mi
- Penfield, NY9 mi
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