Petersburg, VA Weather Forecast
Petersburg city, Virginia
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Petersburg, 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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Petersburg, VA at a glance
Petersburg is home to about 33,309 people in Petersburg city, across 23 square miles. It ranks 18th by population of 87 places in Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Colonial Heights, 4 miles away.
- County
- Petersburg city
- Population
- 33,309 2023 est.
- Land area
- 23 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,466
- Forecast point
- 37.2047°N, 77.3924°W
How well can the network see Petersburg?
The nearest Doppler radar is KAKQ (Norfolk/Richmond, VA), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,500 ft above Petersburg. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Petersburg show up clearly. Petersburg is closer to its radar than 76% 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 Petersburg
- Colonial Heights, VA4 mi
- Hopewell, VA8 mi
- Richmond, VA23 mi
- Blackstone, VA35 mi
- Emporia, VA36 mi
- Williamsburg, VA38 mi
- Ashland, VA39 mi
- West Point, VA40 mi
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