Athens, OH Weather Forecast
Athens County, Ohio
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Athens, 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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Athens, OH at a glance
Athens is home to about 24,673 people in Athens County, across 9.9 square miles. It ranks 65th by population of 358 places in Ohio with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Nelsonville, 11 miles away.
- County
- Athens County
- Population
- 24,673 2023 est.
- Land area
- 9.9 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,481
- Forecast point
- 39.3263°N, 82.1002°W
How well can the network see Athens?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRLX (Charleston, WV), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 6,000 ft above Athens. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Athens can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KUNI (Albany/Ohio Univ Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Athens
- Nelsonville, OH11 mi
- Logan, OH22 mi
- Belpre, OH27 mi
- Wellston, OH28 mi
- New Lexington, OH28 mi
- Parkersburg, WV30 mi
- Vienna, WV30 mi
- Ravenswood, WV31 mi
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