Roanoke, VA Weather Forecast
Roanoke city, Virginia
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Roanoke, 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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Roanoke, VA at a glance
Roanoke is home to about 97,171 people in Roanoke city, across 43 square miles. It ranks 9th by population of 87 places in Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Vinton, 4 miles away.
- County
- Roanoke city
- Population
- 97,171 2023 est.
- Land area
- 43 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,285
- Forecast point
- 37.2785°N, 79.9582°W
How well can the network see Roanoke?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFCX (Roanoke, VA), to the SW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,400 ft above Roanoke. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Roanoke show up clearly. Roanoke is closer to its radar than 78% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KROA (Roanoke Rgnl). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Roanoke
- Vinton, VA4 mi
- Salem, VA5 mi
- Rocky Mount, VA19 mi
- Bedford, VA25 mi
- Blacksburg, VA26 mi
- Christiansburg, VA26 mi
- Covington, VA35 mi
- Radford, VA35 mi
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