Abilene, TX Weather Forecast
Taylor County, Texas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Abilene, 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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Abilene, TX at a glance
Abilene is home to about 129,043 people in Taylor County, across 107 square miles. It ranks 29th by population of 536 places in Texas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Clyde, 14 miles away.
- County
- Taylor County
- Population
- 129,043 2023 est.
- Land area
- 107 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,210
- Forecast point
- 32.4545°N, 99.7381°W
How well can the network see Abilene?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDYX (Dyess AFB, TX), to the ENE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,700 ft above Abilene. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Abilene show up clearly. Abilene is closer to its radar than 72% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KABI (Abilene Rgnl). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Abilene
- Clyde, TX14 mi
- Sweetwater, TX39 mi
- Stamford, TX42 mi
- Cisco, TX44 mi
- Coleman, TX47 mi
- Haskell, TX49 mi
- Ballinger, TX51 mi
- Breckenridge, TX52 mi
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