Colonial Heights, VA Weather Forecast
Colonial Heights city, Virginia
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Colonial Heights, 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.
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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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Colonial Heights, VA at a glance
Colonial Heights is home to about 18,393 people in Colonial Heights city, across 7.5 square miles. It ranks 29th by population of 87 places in Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Petersburg, 4 miles away.
- County
- Colonial Heights city
- Population
- 18,393 2023 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,446
- Forecast point
- 37.2617°N, 77.3968°W
How well can the network see Colonial Heights?
The nearest Doppler radar is KAKQ (Norfolk/Richmond, VA), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,700 ft above Colonial Heights. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Colonial Heights show up clearly. Colonial Heights is closer to its radar than 72% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KPTB (Petersburg/Dinwiddie Cnty). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Colonial Heights
- Petersburg, VA4 mi
- Hopewell, VA6 mi
- Richmond, VA19 mi
- Ashland, VA35 mi
- Blackstone, VA36 mi
- Williamsburg, VA38 mi
- West Point, VA38 mi
- Emporia, VA40 mi
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