Cary, NC Weather Forecast
Wake County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Cary, 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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Cary, NC at a glance
Cary is home to about 180,010 people in Wake County, across 60 square miles. It ranks 7th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Morrisville, 4 miles away.
- County
- Wake County
- Population
- 180,010 2023 est.
- Land area
- 60 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,994
- Forecast point
- 35.7813°N, 78.8234°W
How well can the network see Cary?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRAX (Raleigh/Durham, NC), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,100 ft above Cary. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Cary show up clearly. Cary is closer to its radar than 84% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KRDU (Raleigh-Durham Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Cary
- Morrisville, NC4 mi
- Apex, NC5 mi
- Holly Springs, NC9 mi
- Raleigh, NC11 mi
- Fuquay-Varina, NC13 mi
- Garner, NC13 mi
- Durham, NC14 mi
- Chapel Hill, NC16 mi
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