Albuquerque, NM Weather Forecast
Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Seven-day outlook
41–73°F across the weekThe week runs between 41° and 73°, with today the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Monday is the coolest day in it. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 86%. 4 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 Albuquerque forecast
Albuquerque sits at 35.1048°N, 106.6468°W in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. 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
- Bernalillo County
- Coordinates
- 35.1048°N, 106.6468°W
- Population
- 560,274 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 187.266 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Albuquerque, 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 Albuquerque?
The nearest Doppler radar is KABX (Albuquerque, NM), 10 miles to the WNW. 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 Albuquerque its center is about 540 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 Albuquerque, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Albuquerque is closer to its radar than 95% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KABQ · Albuquerque Intl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 4.7 miles away. Close enough that its readings are, for practical purposes, the conditions in town.
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 New Mexico observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Albuquerque
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM4 mi
- Corrales, NM9 mi
- Rio Rancho, NM13 mi
- Bernalillo, NM15 mi
- Bosque Farms, NM18 mi
- Peralta, NM19 mi
- Los Lunas, NM22 mi
- Edgewood, NM24 mi
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