Madison, Maryland Weather
Madison, 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, soil and crop conditions for Madison, Dorchester County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Madison.
About Madison, Maryland
Madison, a quiet enclave in Dorchester County, Maryland, breathes the slow, salty air of the Eastern Shore. It lies 19.2 miles south-south-west of Talbot, MD (from Talbot, MD: bearing 194°T), and is situated 8.4 miles west-south-west of Cambridge. The landscape here is a gentle surrender to water, where broad fields, often a rich, dark loam, bleed into the marsh grasses that fringe the Choptank River and its tributaries. Ancient live oaks, draped with Spanish moss, stand sentinel over the low-lying terrain, their gnarled branches reaching towards a sky that often hangs heavy with the promise of rain or the luminous glow of a setting sun. The very character of Madison is one of patient endurance, a place where the tides dictate the rhythm of life and the whisper of the wind through the reeds carries echoes of generations past. The history of Madison is deeply entwined with the Chesapeake Bay's bounty and the agricultural heritage of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Once a bustling port and steamboat stop, its economy has long been shaped by the harvests of the water – crabs, oysters, and fish – and the fertile land that yields corn and soybeans. The remnants of its past prosperity can still be glimpsed in the weathered clapboard houses and the ghosts of wharves that once lined its shores. Though the steamboats are long gone, a palpable sense of connection to this maritime and agrarian past remains, a quiet pride that permeates the everyday life of Madison, a place where the present is always mindful of the stories the water and the earth have to tell.
Live animated radar for Madison 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.
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| Location | Madison, Dorchester County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.51151°N, 76.220222°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 21648 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Madison, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Madison, 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 Madison includes coordinates 38.511510°N, 76.220222°W, situated in Dorchester County. ZIP code 21648. Telephone area code: 410, 443. 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.
