Franklin, PA Weather Forecast
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Franklin, 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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Franklin, PA at a glance
Franklin is home to about 4,404 people in Carbon County, across 15 square miles. It ranks 605th by population of 970 places in Pennsylvania with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Towamensing, 3 miles away.
- County
- Carbon County
- Population
- 4,404 2023 est.
- Land area
- 15 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 291
- Forecast point
- 40.8555°N, 75.6637°W
How well can the network see Franklin?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDIX (Philadelphia, PA), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 8,300 ft above Franklin. At that range the beam overshoots the base of a storm. If a warning for Franklin looks unsupported on radar, trust the warning.
The closest weather station is K22N (Lehighton/Arner Mem). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Franklin
- Towamensing, PA3 mi
- Lehighton, PA3 mi
- Palmerton, PA4 mi
- Lower Towamensing, PA5 mi
- Jim Thorpe, PA6 mi
- Mahoning, PA6 mi
- East Penn, PA6 mi
- Penn Forest, PA7 mi
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