Yankton, SD Weather Forecast
Yankton County, South Dakota
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Yankton, 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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Yankton, SD at a glance
Yankton is home to about 15,630 people in Yankton County, across 8.7 square miles. It ranks 6th by population of 28 places in South Dakota with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Vermillion, 25 miles away.
- County
- Yankton County
- Population
- 15,630 2023 est.
- Land area
- 8.7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,797
- Forecast point
- 42.8898°N, 97.3927°W
How well can the network see Yankton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFSD (Sioux Falls, SD), to the NE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,400 ft above Yankton. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Yankton can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KYKN (Yankton/Gurney Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Yankton
- Vermillion, SD25 mi
- Hawarden, IA47 mi
- Tea, SD48 mi
- Wayne, NE49 mi
- Canton, SD50 mi
- Harrisburg, SD51 mi
- North Sioux City, SD52 mi
- Hartford, SD55 mi
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