Durham, NC Weather Forecast
Durham County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Durham, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry overnight, mostly sunny
It is 49°, but the wind is taking it down to 48° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly sunny.
The wind turns to the west around 1 PM. 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
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 48°. Tomorrow reaches 57°, 13° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
33–70°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 70°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Durham, NC at a glance
Durham is home to about 296,186 people in Durham County, across 117 square miles. It ranks 4th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Chapel Hill, 9 miles away.
- County
- Durham County
- Population
- 296,186 2023 est.
- Land area
- 117 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,537
- Forecast point
- 35.9781°N, 78.8995°W
How well can the network see Durham?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRAX (Raleigh/Durham, NC), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,900 ft above Durham. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Durham show up clearly. Durham is closer to its radar than 68% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KTQV (Durham/Duke Child Hosp). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Durham
- Chapel Hill, NC9 mi
- Morrisville, NC10 mi
- Carrboro, NC11 mi
- Hillsborough, NC13 mi
- Butner, NC14 mi
- Cary, NC14 mi
- Creedmoor, NC16 mi
- Apex, NC18 mi
Elsewhere in North Carolina
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