Knightdale, NC Weather Forecast
Wake County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Knightdale, 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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Knightdale, NC at a glance
Knightdale is home to about 20,275 people in Wake County, across 9.3 square miles. It ranks 48th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Wendell, 8 miles away.
- County
- Wake County
- Population
- 20,275 2023 est.
- Land area
- 9.3 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,190
- Forecast point
- 35.7917°N, 78.4965°W
How well can the network see Knightdale?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRAX (Raleigh/Durham, NC), to the S. Its lowest scan passes about 440 ft above Knightdale. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Knightdale show up clearly. Knightdale is closer to its radar than 96% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KRDU (Raleigh-Durham Intl). Far enough that current conditions for Knightdale are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Knightdale
- Wendell, NC8 mi
- Raleigh, NC9 mi
- Rolesville, NC9 mi
- Garner, NC9 mi
- Clayton, NC10 mi
- Archer Lodge, NC10 mi
- Zebulon, NC11 mi
- Wake Forest, NC12 mi
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