Oak Island, NC Weather Forecast
Brunswick County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Oak Island, 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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Oak Island, NC at a glance
Oak Island is home to about 9,480 people in Brunswick County, across 19 square miles. It ranks 96th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is St. James, 2 miles away.
- County
- Brunswick County
- Population
- 9,480 2023 est.
- Land area
- 19 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 492
- Forecast point
- 33.9133°N, 78.1198°W
How well can the network see Oak Island?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLTX (Wilmington, NC), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,000 ft above Oak Island. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Oak Island show up clearly. Oak Island is closer to its radar than 87% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSUT (Southport/Cape Fear Rgnl). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Oak Island
- St. James, NC2 mi
- Southport, NC7 mi
- Boiling Spring Lakes, NC9 mi
- Carolina Beach, NC15 mi
- Shallotte, NC16 mi
- Leland, NC22 mi
- Sunset Beach, NC22 mi
- Wilmington, NC24 mi
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