Dayton, OH Weather Forecast
Montgomery County, Ohio
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Dayton, 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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Dayton, OH at a glance
Dayton is home to about 135,512 people in Montgomery County, across 56 square miles. It ranks 6th by population of 358 places in Ohio with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Riverside, 4 miles away.
- County
- Montgomery County
- Population
- 135,512 2023 est.
- Land area
- 56 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,428
- Forecast point
- 39.7847°N, 84.1996°W
How well can the network see Dayton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KILN (Wilmington, OH), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,800 ft above Dayton. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Dayton show up clearly. Dayton is closer to its radar than 71% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KDAY (Dayton/Cox Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Dayton
- Riverside, OH4 mi
- Oakwood, OH5 mi
- Moraine, OH6 mi
- Trotwood, OH7 mi
- Vandalia, OH7 mi
- Kettering, OH7 mi
- Huber Heights, OH7 mi
- Englewood, OH8 mi
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