Dorchester, Maryland Weather
Dorchester, Maryland — 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 Dorchester, Charles County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Dorchester. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Dorchester is published on the Potomac Airfield (KVKX) page, 14 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. 5 airfields within reach of Dorchester 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 Dorchester: Joint Base Andrews (KADW) 22 km · College Park Airport (KCGS) 40 km · Lee Airport (KANP) 49 km · Patuxent River Naval Air Station (Trapnell Field) (KNHK) 59 km
Conditions reported at KVKX describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Dorchester specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Dorchester.
About Dorchester, Maryland
Dorchester lies in a landscape shaped by slow, patient water. The land here is low, a testament to the Chesapeake's quiet dominion, where wide skies stretch over fields of corn and soybeans that ripple like a green sea under the coastal breeze. Cypress knees, gnarled and ancient, stand sentinel at the edges of brackish marshes, their roots drinking deep from the silty earth. The air itself carries a damp, earthy scent, thick with the promise of rain and the distant tang of salt, and in the late afternoon, the sun bleeds a hazy, golden light across the flat horizon, softening the edges of everything it touches. The quiet here is not an absence of sound, but a different kind of listening, attuned to the croak of unseen frogs and the rustle of reeds disturbed by unseen creatures. This corner of Maryland has long been a place of quiet industry, tied to the bounty of the water and the fertility of the soil. Dorchester's history is etched in the weathered clapboard of its older buildings, remnants of a time when fishing boats and oyster dredging were the lifeblood of the community. While agriculture remains, a gentle hum of activity, it is the Chesapeake Bay that whispers the loudest in Dorchester's story, its currents carrying echoes of generations who made their living from its depths. Small marinas dot the waterways, their docks worn smooth by countless hands, and the scent of woodsmoke often mingles with the salty air, a comforting reminder of hearth and home in this quiet, enduring place.
Live animated radar for Dorchester 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 | Dorchester, Charles County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.618174°N, 76.943306°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 20603, 21613 |
| Area Code | 301, 240, 410, 443 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dorchester, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dorchester, Maryland, 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 Dorchester includes coordinates 38.618174°N, 76.943306°W, situated in Charles County. ZIP code 20603, 21613. Telephone area code: 301, 240, 410, 443. 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.
