Phoenix, AZ Weather Forecast
Maricopa County, Arizona
Seven-day outlook
55–76°F across the weekThe week runs between 55° and 76°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 94%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Phoenix forecast
Phoenix sits at 33.5722°N, 112.0901°W in Maricopa County, Arizona. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Maricopa County
- Coordinates
- 33.5722°N, 112.0901°W
- Population
- 1,650,070 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 518.331 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Phoenix, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Phoenix?
The nearest Doppler radar is KIWA (Phoenix, AZ), 31 miles to the SE. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Phoenix its center is about 1,900 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Phoenix, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Phoenix is closer to its radar than 69% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KDVT · Phoenix/Deer Valley Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 8.3 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Arizona observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Phoenix
- Glendale, AZ6 mi
- Paradise Valley, AZ8 mi
- Youngtown, AZ12 mi
- Tolleson, AZ13 mi
- El Mirage, AZ14 mi
- Scottsdale, AZ15 mi
- Tempe, AZ16 mi
- Guadalupe, AZ16 mi
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