Fairwood, Maryland Weather
Fairwood, 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 Fairwood, Anne Arundel County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fairwood. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fairwood is published on the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (KBWI) page, 17 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. 6 airfields within reach of Fairwood 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 Fairwood: Fort Meade Executive Airport (KFME) 24 km · Martin State Airport (KMTN) 24 km · Weide (Aberdeen Proving Ground) Army Heliport (KEDG) 35 km · Phillips Army Air Field (KAPG) 48 km · Harford County Airport (K0W3) 56 km
Conditions reported at KBWI describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fairwood specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Fairwood, Maryland
Fairwood breathes the humid embrace of the Chesapeake's western shore, a landscape of soft, rolling terrain where the earth yields generously to the sky. It lies 4.4 miles east of Pasadena, MD (from Pasadena, MD: bearing 80°T), and is situated 7.8 miles east-south-east of Glen Burnie. Here, the land slopes gently towards unseen waterways, its contours traced by the slow, deliberate march of oak and pine. The air, thick with the scent of pine needles and damp soil, carries the distant hum of cicadas, a constant, almost drowsy murmur that underscores the languid pace of life. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy in shifting patterns, illuminating patches of wild azaleas and the occasional flash of a cardinal's red wing. This is a place where the horizon feels close, softened by the verdant growth that crowds the edges of roads and fields, creating a sense of intimate enclosure. The history of Fairwood is a quiet narrative, tied to the fertile soil that has sustained it for generations. Once, this land was a different kind of green, cultivated by hands that understood the rhythms of tobacco and later, the more varied bounty of truck farming. The echoes of that agricultural past can still be felt in the weathered barns and the open fields that break the dense woodland, remnants of a time when the local economy was intrinsically bound to the earth's offerings. While the economic landscape has shifted, with a greater reliance on services and proximity to larger urban centers, a distinct character persists in Fairwood. It is a character shaped by the enduring presence of its natural surroundings, a place where the quality of light at dusk, a deep, honeyed gold, seems to linger, imbuing the ordinary with a quiet, understated beauty.
Live animated radar for Fairwood 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 | Fairwood, Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39.118999°N, 76.489684°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 21122, 20720 |
| Area Code | 240, 301 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fairwood, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fairwood, 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 Fairwood includes coordinates 39.118999°N, 76.489684°W, situated in Anne Arundel County. ZIP code 21122, 20720. Telephone area code: 240, 301. 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.
