Long Beach, Maryland Weather
Long Beach, Maryland — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Long Beach, Calvert County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Long Beach. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Long Beach is published on the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (Trapnell Field) (KNHK) page, 20 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 Long Beach 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 Long Beach: Naval Outlying Landing Field Webster (KNUI) 35 km · Cambridge Dorchester Airport (KCGE) 39 km · Easton Airport / Newnam Field (KESN) 52 km · Joint Base Andrews (KADW) 52 km · Potomac Airfield (KVKX) 53 km
Conditions reported at KNHK describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Long Beach specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Long Beach.
About Long Beach, Maryland
Long Beach unfurls along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, a ribbon of sandy coast where the land surrenders gently to the water. It lies 22.3 miles east of Wicomico, MD (from Wicomico, MD: bearing 81°T), and is situated 9.7 miles north-east of Hollywood. The air here carries the briny tang of the bay, a constant, subtle perfume mingling with the scent of pine and the damp earth. Low dunes, softened by sea oats and beach grass, offer a fragile boundary between the scrubby pines and the pale, shifting sands that meet the Bay's tidal embrace. The light, particularly as the afternoon wanes, often takes on a molten quality, gilding the distant sails and casting long shadows that stretch inland, blurring the edges of the weathered, salt-kissed cottages that dot the shoreline. This stretch of Calvert County has long been tied to the rhythms of the water and the land. For generations, life in Long Beach revolved around the bounty of the Chesapeake, with fishing and oystering forming the backbone of its economy, a legacy still visible in the weathered piers and the occasional crab pot stacked by the roadside. The land itself, fertile and yielding, has supported farming, a quiet tradition that continues to shape the rolling terrain inland. Small, independent businesses, like the bait shops and seafood markets, form the heart of the local commerce, their doors open to a steady stream of visitors drawn to the bay's quiet allure and the simple, unpretentious charm of Long Beach.
Live animated radar for Long Beach 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 | Long Beach, Calvert County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.460956°N, 76.468841°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 20685 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Long Beach, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Beach, 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 Long Beach includes coordinates 38.460956°N, 76.468841°W, situated in Calvert County. ZIP code 20685. 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.
