Garner, NC Weather Forecast
Wake County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Garner, 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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Garner, NC at a glance
Garner is home to about 35,265 people in Wake County, across 19 square miles. It ranks 30th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Knightdale, 9 miles away.
- County
- Wake County
- Population
- 35,265 2023 est.
- Land area
- 19 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,841
- Forecast point
- 35.6936°N, 78.6149°W
How well can the network see Garner?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRAX (Raleigh/Durham, NC), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 360 ft above Garner. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Garner show up clearly. Garner is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KJNX (Smithfield/Johnston Rgnl). Far enough that current conditions for Garner are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Garner
- Knightdale, NC9 mi
- Raleigh, NC10 mi
- Clayton, NC10 mi
- Fuquay-Varina, NC11 mi
- Holly Springs, NC13 mi
- Cary, NC13 mi
- Archer Lodge, NC14 mi
- Angier, NC14 mi
Elsewhere in North Carolina
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