Sunset Beach, NC Weather Forecast
Brunswick County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Sunset Beach, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry evening, partly cloudy
It is 49°, but the wind is taking it down to 46° on exposed skin. The sky is partly cloudy.
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 44°. Tomorrow tops out near 56°.
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
41–68°F across the weekThe week runs between 40° and 66°, with Thursday 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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Sunset Beach, NC at a glance
Sunset Beach is home to about 4,544 people in Brunswick County, across 7 square miles. It ranks 164th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Carolina Shores, 4 miles away.
- County
- Brunswick County
- Population
- 4,544 2023 est.
- Land area
- 7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 652
- Forecast point
- 33.8948°N, 78.5050°W
How well can the network see Sunset Beach?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLTX (Wilmington, NC), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 390 ft above Sunset Beach. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Sunset Beach show up clearly. Sunset Beach is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KCRE (North Myrtle Beach/Grand Strand Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Sunset Beach
- Carolina Shores, NC4 mi
- Shallotte, NC9 mi
- North Myrtle Beach, SC12 mi
- Oak Island, NC22 mi
- St. James, NC23 mi
- Loris, SC25 mi
- Myrtle Beach, SC25 mi
- Boiling Spring Lakes, NC27 mi
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