Forest Heights, Maryland Weather
Forest 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 Forest Heights, Prince George's County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Forest Heights. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Forest Heights is published on the Potomac Airfield (KVKX) page, 8 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 Forest 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 Forest Heights: Joint Base Andrews (KADW) 11 km · College Park Airport (KCGS) 20 km · Lee Airport (KANP) 40 km
Conditions reported at KVKX describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Forest Heights specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Forest Heights, Maryland
Forest Heights unfolds as a verdant expanse, where the rolling terrain, softened by a generous cloak of trees, meets the sky in a gentle, undulating embrace. It lies 2.7 miles east of Alexandria, VA (from Alexandria, VA: bearing 83°T), and is situated 6.3 miles south-south-east of Washington. The air here carries a certain humidity, a whisper of the nearby Potomac, that clings to the skin like a fine silk. Streets wind with a casual grace, lined by homes that seem to have grown organically from the earth, their roofs catching the dappled sunlight that filters through the dense canopy. It’s a place where the quiet hum of cicadas in the summer heat forms the dominant soundscape, punctuated by the distant murmur of traffic, a reminder of the larger world just beyond its leafy borders. The history of Forest Heights is a story told in the growth rings of its ancient oaks and the echoes of its proximity to the nation's capital. Once a landscape shaped by agriculture, the land remembers the plow and the harvest, though today its economy is primarily tied to the service sector and its residents who commute to surrounding employment centers. The Potomac River, a constant, silvery presence, has always been a lifeblood, though its shores here are more about quiet contemplation than bustling ports, a place where one can watch the egrets fish in the early morning mist. Forest Heights itself, a community that has grown and adapted, offers a sense of settled permanence, a place where the rhythm of life is measured not by the frantic tick of a clock, but by the slow, deliberate turning of the seasons.
Live animated radar for Forest 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 | Forest Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.809558°N, 76.998031°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 20745 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Forest Heights, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Forest 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 Forest Heights includes coordinates 38.809558°N, 76.998031°W, situated in Prince George's County. ZIP code 20745. 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.
