Portland, OR Weather Forecast
Multnomah County, Oregon
Seven-day outlook
40–57°F across the weekThe week runs between 40° and 57°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 33%. 5 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 Portland forecast
Portland sits at 45.5370°N, 122.6500°W in Multnomah County, Oregon. 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
- Multnomah County
- Coordinates
- 45.5370°N, 122.6500°W
- Population
- 630,498 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 133.488 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Portland, 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 Portland?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRTX (Portland, OR), 20 miles to the NW. 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 Portland its center is about 1,100 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 Portland, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Portland is closer to its radar than 85% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KPDX · Portland Intl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 4.5 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 Oregon observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Portland
- Milwaukie, OR7 mi
- Vancouver, WA7 mi
- Lake Oswego, OR9 mi
- Beaverton, OR9 mi
- Happy Valley, OR10 mi
- Tigard, OR10 mi
- Fairview, OR10 mi
- Gresham, OR10 mi
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