Clayton, Delaware Weather
Clayton, Delaware — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Clayton, Kent County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Clayton. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Clayton is published on the Delaware Airpark (K33N) page, 8 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 Clayton 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 Clayton: Chandelle Airport (K0N4) 16 km · Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base (KDOV) 23 km · Summit Airport (KEVY) 27 km · Cecil County Airport (K58M) 38 km · Wilmington Airport (KILG) 43 km
Conditions reported at K33N describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Clayton specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Clayton, Delaware
Clayton sits low and wide, a place where the land seems to sigh into the Chesapeake Bay's broad expanse. It lies 10.9 miles north-north-west of Dover, DE (from Dover, DE: bearing 327°T), and is situated 1.7 miles west-south-west of Smyrna. The terrain here is flat, a subtle yielding to the slow embrace of water and marsh. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch out, their green and gold hues bleeding into the hazy, humid air that often hangs like a damp cloth. Creek beds, silver threads in the landscape, wind their way through the fields, carrying the runoff towards larger waterways, their banks fringed with reeds and the occasional stoic oak. The light at dusk, when it finally breaks through the summer haze, can be a soft, diffused glow, turning the weathered clapboard of houses and barns a muted, earthy tone. Clayton’s roots are intertwined with the agricultural bounty of this fertile peninsula, a history reflected in the enduring presence of family farms and the quiet hum of machinery during harvest season. The local economy, while diversified, still leans heavily on the land, with grain storage facilities and agricultural services forming a backbone. The town itself carries a sense of quiet persistence, a place where life unfolds at a pace dictated by the seasons and the ebb and flow of the bay. Though not a hub of grand landmarks, Clayton possesses a distinctive character, a modest charm born from its working landscape and the unpretentious spirit of its people, who have long found their livelihood and their peace here.
Live animated radar for Clayton 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 | Clayton, Kent County, Delaware |
| Coordinates | 39.290667°N, 75.634373°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 19938 |
| Area Code | 302 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Clayton, Delaware Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Clayton, Delaware, 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 Clayton includes coordinates 39.290667°N, 75.634373°W, situated in Kent County. ZIP code 19938. Telephone area code: 302. 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.
