Pittsburgh, PA Weather Forecast
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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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
37–76°F across the weekThe week runs between 39° and 76°, with Wednesday the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Saturday is the coolest day in it. Thursday is the wettest day, peaking near 80%. 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 Pittsburgh forecast
Pittsburgh sits at 40.4399°N, 79.9757°W in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 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
- Allegheny County
- Coordinates
- 40.4399°N, 79.9757°W
- Population
- 303,255 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 55.378 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Pittsburgh, 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 Pittsburgh?
The nearest Doppler radar is KPBZ (Pittsburgh, PA), 14 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 Pittsburgh its center is about 760 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 Pittsburgh, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Pittsburgh is closer to its radar than 92% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KAGC · Pittsburgh/Allegheny Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 6.5 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
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 Pennsylvania observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Pittsburgh
- Mount Oliver, PA2 mi
- Millvale, PA3 mi
- Reserve, PA3 mi
- Etna, PA4 mi
- Homestead, PA4 mi
- Baldwin, PA4 mi
- Green Tree, PA4 mi
- Dormont, PA5 mi
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