Wilkes-Barre, PA Weather Forecast
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Wilkes-Barre, 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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Wilkes-Barre, PA at a glance
Wilkes-Barre is home to about 44,254 people in Luzerne County, across 6.8 square miles. It ranks 19th by population of 970 places in Pennsylvania with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Kingston, 1 miles away.
- County
- Luzerne County
- Population
- 44,254 2023 est.
- Land area
- 6.8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 6,462
- Forecast point
- 41.2466°N, 75.8757°W
How well can the network see Wilkes-Barre?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBGM (Binghamton, NY), to the N. Its lowest scan passes about 5,200 ft above Wilkes-Barre. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Wilkes-Barre 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 Wilkes-Barre
- Kingston, PA1 mi
- Edwardsville, PA2 mi
- Forty Fort, PA2 mi
- Ashley, PA3 mi
- Luzerne, PA3 mi
- Larksville, PA3 mi
- Plains, PA3 mi
- Swoyersville, PA4 mi
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