Fairmount Heights, Maryland Weather
Fairmount Heights, Maryland — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Fairmount Heights, Prince George's County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fairmount Heights. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fairmount Heights is published on the College Park Airport (KCGS) page, 9 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. 4 airfields within reach of Fairmount Heights 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 Fairmount Heights: Joint Base Andrews (KADW) 11 km · Potomac Airfield (KVKX) 17 km · Lee Airport (KANP) 30 km
Conditions reported at KCGS describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fairmount Heights specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Fairmount Heights, Maryland
Fairmount Heights rests on land that remembers its agricultural past, a gentle rise in the Prince George's County landscape where the air often carries the faint, sweet scent of pine and damp earth after a spring rain. It lies 5.6 miles south-south-east of College Park, MD (from College Park, MD: bearing 168°T), and is situated 6.5 miles east of Washington. The streets here, lined with a mix of modest single-family homes and apartment buildings, curve and dip with the natural contours of the terrain, suggesting a development that grew organically rather than from a rigid blueprint. Mature trees, their branches heavy with the weight of seasons, cast deep shadows across driveways and sidewalks, creating pockets of cool shade even on the warmest afternoons. The sky above Fairmount Heights often holds a particular quality at dusk, a bruised purple and soft orange that seems to linger, imbuing the ordinary with a quiet, transient beauty. The history of Fairmount Heights is intertwined with the post-World War II suburban boom, a period that saw much of this land transition from fields to housing developments, bringing new residents and a shifting local economy. Its character is shaped by a working-class heritage, a spirit of resilience evident in the neighborhood’s enduring stability and the neighborly nods exchanged on front porches. While not a hub of grand industry, Fairmount Heights has long served as a vital residential anchor for those working in the surrounding corridors of commerce and government, its residents contributing to the broader economic life of the region. There are no towering monuments or sprawling parks within its immediate boundaries, but rather a quiet dignity in its everyday existence, a sense of place built on the steady rhythm of families and their daily routines.
Live animated radar for Fairmount Heights 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 | Fairmount Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.900945°N, 76.915529°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 20743 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fairmount Heights, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fairmount Heights, 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 Fairmount Heights includes coordinates 38.900945°N, 76.915529°W, situated in Prince George's County. ZIP code 20743. 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. 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.
