Galveston, TX Weather Forecast
Galveston County, Texas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Galveston, 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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Galveston, TX at a glance
Galveston is home to about 53,237 people in Galveston County, across 41 square miles. It ranks 70th by population of 536 places in Texas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Hitchcock, 7 miles away.
- County
- Galveston County
- Population
- 53,237 2023 est.
- Land area
- 41 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,297
- Forecast point
- 29.1863°N, 94.9658°W
How well can the network see Galveston?
The nearest Doppler radar is KHGX (Houston, TX), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,200 ft above Galveston. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Galveston show up clearly. Galveston is closer to its radar than 84% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KGLS (Galveston/Scholes Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Galveston
- Hitchcock, TX7 mi
- La Marque, TX13 mi
- Santa Fe, TX16 mi
- Texas City, TX18 mi
- Dickinson, TX19 mi
- Alvin, TX23 mi
- League City, TX23 mi
- Kemah, TX24 mi
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