Chesapeake Beach, Maryland Weather
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County.
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About Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
Chesapeake Beach unfolds along the western edge of the Chesapeake Bay, a place where the land exhales salt and the air carries the low hum of distant boats. It lies 18.4 miles south of Anne Arundel, MD (from Anne Arundel, MD: bearing 178°T), and is situated 6.3 miles south of Deale. Here, the shoreline is a gentle curve, not dramatic cliffs but a welcoming embrace of sand and sea grass, meeting the brackish waters in a perpetual, shimmering conversation. The sky above is a vast canvas, often painted with the soft, diffused light of the mid-Atlantic, a light that softens edges and lends a quiet dignity to the weathered clapboard houses and the sturdy pilings that jut into the bay. The very ground feels yielding, a testament to the centuries of tides and the slow, persistent work of water shaping the coast. This stretch of shore in Calvert County carries the echoes of a bygone era of grand amusement parks and bustling boardwalks, a time when Chesapeake Beach was a destination for summer revelry, accessible by rail and steamboat. While those boisterous days have receded, the spirit of a lively seaside resort lingers, now intertwined with the quieter rhythms of a working waterfront. The local economy still draws sustenance from the bay, with fishing boats unloading their catches of rockfish and oysters, their weathered hulls bearing the marks of countless journeys. The town’s character is one of resilience and adaptation, a community that has found new ways to thrive while holding fast to its coastal identity, its story told in the weathered wood of its piers and the enduring call of the gulls overhead.
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| Location | Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.68623°N, 76.534678°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 20732 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Chesapeake Beach, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Chesapeake Beach includes coordinates 38.686230°N, 76.534678°W, situated in Calvert County. ZIP code 20732. Telephone area code: 301, 240. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
