Whitefish, MT Weather Forecast
Flathead County, Montana
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The next few hours
A dry evening, partly cloudy
It is 47°, but the wind is taking it down to 45° on exposed skin. The sky is partly cloudy. The air is close to calm.
The wind backs into the northwest around 6 AM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 38°. Tomorrow reaches 52°, 8° warmer than today.
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
28–52°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 52°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tuesday is the wettest day, peaking near 28%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Whitefish, MT at a glance
Whitefish is home to about 9,163 people in Flathead County, across 7.2 square miles. It ranks 11th by population of 29 places in Montana with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Columbia Falls, 9 miles away.
- County
- Flathead County
- Population
- 9,163 2023 est.
- Land area
- 7.2 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,276
- Forecast point
- 48.4380°N, 114.3480°W
How well can the network see Whitefish?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMSX (Missoula, MT), to the S. Its lowest scan passes about 9,300 ft above Whitefish. At that range the beam overshoots the base of a storm. If a warning for Whitefish looks unsupported on radar, trust the warning.
The closest weather station is KGPI (Kalispell/Glacier Park Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Whitefish
- Columbia Falls, MT9 mi
- Kalispell, MT15 mi
- Polson, MT53 mi
- Libby, MT56 mi
- Bonners Ferry, ID92 mi
- Cut Bank, MT93 mi
- Sandpoint, ID102 mi
- Missoula, MT109 mi
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