Dorchester, Maryland Weather
Dorchester, 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, soil and crop conditions for Dorchester, Charles County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 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, 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 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. 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.
