Scranton, PA Weather Forecast
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Scranton, 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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Scranton, PA at a glance
Scranton is home to about 75,805 people in Lackawanna County, across 25 square miles. It ranks 8th by population of 970 places in Pennsylvania with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Taylor, 3 miles away.
- County
- Lackawanna County
- Population
- 75,805 2023 est.
- Land area
- 25 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,995
- Forecast point
- 41.4042°N, 75.6659°W
How well can the network see Scranton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBGM (Binghamton, NY), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 4,300 ft above Scranton. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Scranton can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KAVP (Wilkes-Barre Scranton Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Scranton
- Taylor, PA3 mi
- Dunmore, PA3 mi
- Moosic, PA4 mi
- Throop, PA4 mi
- Old Forge, PA5 mi
- Dickson City, PA5 mi
- Olyphant, PA6 mi
- Newton, PA6 mi
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