Sail Harbor, Connecticut Weather
Sail Harbor, Connecticut — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Sail Harbor, Fairfield County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Sail Harbor. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Sail Harbor is published on the Candlelight Farms Airport (K11N) page, 4 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Sail Harbor have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Sail Harbor: Danbury Municipal Airport (KDXR) 18 km · Waterbury Oxford Airport (KOXC) 28 km · Dutchess County Airport (KPOU) 36 km · Waterbury Airport (KN41) 37 km · Igor I Sikorsky Memorial Airport (KBDR) 50 km
Conditions reported at K11N describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sail Harbor specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sail Harbor.
About Sail Harbor, Connecticut
Sail Harbor unfolds along a sliver of Connecticut coastline, where the restless Atlantic whispers against weathered docks and salt-laced air clings to everything. It lies 9.3 miles north of Danbury, CT (from Danbury, CT: bearing 356°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east of Patterson. The land here, a gentle slope of green punctuated by the sturdy, salt-bleached architecture of seaside living, rises subtly from the water's edge. Oaks and maples, their branches often gnarled by persistent ocean winds, form a verdant backdrop to the scattered homes, their rooftops a mosaic of slate and shingle catching the sun. The water itself, a shifting canvas of steely grey and sapphire blue, breathes with the tide, its surface often rippled by the passage of sleek sailboats and sturdy fishing vessels that give Sail Harbor its name. The history of Sail Harbor is inextricably tied to the bounty of the sea and the resilience of those who coaxed a living from its depths. For generations, fishing fleets set out from its sheltered cove, their catches forming the backbone of the local economy, a tradition that still echoes in the daily rhythm of the harbor. Remnants of its maritime past are visible in the old cannery buildings, now repurposed into art studios and boutiques, and in the weathered clapboard homes that speak of families who weathered many a storm. While the clamming and lobstering remain, a growing number of residents find their livelihoods in the burgeoning tourism that draws visitors to Sail Harbor's charming shops and its serene, if often bracing, beaches.
Live animated radar for Sail Harbor and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Sail Harbor, Fairfield County, Connecticut |
| Coordinates | 41.529658°N, 73.466378°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Area Code | 203, 475, 860, 959 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sail Harbor, Connecticut Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sail Harbor, Connecticut, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Sail Harbor includes coordinates 41.529658°N, 73.466378°W, situated in Fairfield County. Telephone area code: 203, 475, 860, 959. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
