Lancaster, TX Weather Forecast
Dallas County, Texas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lancaster, 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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Lancaster, TX at a glance
Lancaster is home to about 40,215 people in Dallas County, across 33 square miles. It ranks 90th by population of 536 places in Texas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Hutchins, 5 miles away.
- County
- Dallas County
- Population
- 40,215 2023 est.
- Land area
- 33 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,216
- Forecast point
- 32.5962°N, 96.7738°W
How well can the network see Lancaster?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFWS (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX), to the W. Its lowest scan passes about 1,900 ft above Lancaster. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Lancaster show up clearly. Lancaster is closer to its radar than 69% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KRBD (Dallas/Executive Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Lancaster
- Hutchins, TX5 mi
- DeSoto, TX5 mi
- Wilmer, TX5 mi
- Glenn Heights, TX6 mi
- Red Oak, TX6 mi
- Ferris, TX7 mi
- Ovilla, TX7 mi
- Duncanville, TX9 mi
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