Canton, NC Weather Forecast
Haywood County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Canton, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry afternoon, mostly sunny
It is 34°, but the wind is taking it down to 27° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly sunny.
The wind backs into the west around 8 PM, 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 28°. Tomorrow reaches 47°, 9° warmer than today. It also gets muggier, so tomorrow will feel warmer than the number on its own suggests.
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
28–63°F across the weekThe week runs between 28° and 62°, with Friday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and today is the coolest day in it. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Canton, NC at a glance
Canton is home to about 4,418 people in Haywood County, across 3.7 square miles. It ranks 168th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Waynesville, 9 miles away.
- County
- Haywood County
- Population
- 4,418 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,188
- Forecast point
- 35.5389°N, 82.8486°W
How well can the network see Canton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMRX (Knoxville, TN), to the NW. Its lowest scan passes about 3,900 ft above Canton. Close enough to see rotation in the low part of a storm, where tornadoes form.
The closest weather station is KAVL (Asheville Muni). Far enough that current conditions for Canton are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Canton
- Waynesville, NC9 mi
- Woodfin, NC16 mi
- Asheville, NC17 mi
- Mills River, NC18 mi
- Weaverville, NC20 mi
- Fletcher, NC21 mi
- Brevard, NC21 mi
- Sylva, NC24 mi
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