David City, NE Weather Forecast
Butler County, Nebraska
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
33–63°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 63°, with Monday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and tomorrow is the coolest day in it. Every day in the outlook stays 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 David City forecast
David City sits at 41.2533°N, 97.1264°W in Butler County, Nebraska. 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
- Butler County
- Coordinates
- 41.2533°N, 97.1264°W
- Population
- 3,024 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 4.193 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for David City, 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 David City?
The nearest Doppler radar is KOAX (Omaha, NE), 40 miles to the E. 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 David City its center is about 2,600 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over David City to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. David City is closer to its radar than 57% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KOLU · Columbus Muni on the ASOS/AWOS network, 17 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for David City is an educated reading of somewhere else, worth knowing before you plan around a single temperature.
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 Nebraska observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near David City
- Schuyler, NE14 mi
- Columbus, NE17 mi
- Seward, NE24 mi
- Wahoo, NE27 mi
- Fremont, NE36 mi
- York, NE36 mi
- Lincoln, NE39 mi
- Waverly, NE39 mi
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