Fairmount Heights, Maryland Weather
Fairmount Heights, 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 Fairmount Heights, Prince George's County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 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, 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 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. 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.
