Charlottesville, VA Weather Forecast
Charlottesville city, Virginia
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Charlottesville, 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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Charlottesville, VA at a glance
Charlottesville is home to about 44,983 people in Charlottesville city, across 10 square miles. It ranks 15th by population of 87 places in Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Waynesboro, 23 miles away.
- County
- Charlottesville city
- Population
- 44,983 2023 est.
- Land area
- 10 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,391
- Forecast point
- 38.0377°N, 78.4854°W
How well can the network see Charlottesville?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLWX (Sterling, VA), to the NE. Its lowest scan passes about 7,500 ft above Charlottesville. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Charlottesville can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KCHO (Charlottesville/Albemarle Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Charlottesville
- Waynesboro, VA23 mi
- Grottoes, VA24 mi
- Orange, VA25 mi
- Elkton, VA27 mi
- Staunton, VA32 mi
- Harrisonburg, VA35 mi
- Bridgewater, VA36 mi
- Culpeper, VA40 mi
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