Nanticoke, 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 Nanticoke, Wicomico County.
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Nanticoke lies low and wide, a place where the land seems to exhale into the surrounding waterways. It lies 17.7 miles west-south-west of Salisbury, MD (from Salisbury, MD: bearing 250°T), and is situated 4.9 miles west-north-west of Mount Vernon. The terrain here is a gentle, yielding flatness, carved by the slow, deliberate meander of creeks and tidal marshes that bleed into the larger Nanticoke River. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch out under a sky that often holds a pearly, diffused light, especially in the late afternoons when the air grows thick with the scent of damp earth and ripening crops. The occasional cluster of older homes, their paint faded by sun and salt spray, huddles together as if for warmth, their porches offering quiet observation posts over the languid flow of life. The history of Nanticoke is deeply entwined with the bounty and the challenges of its watery landscape. For generations, the river was the highway, bringing goods and people, and sustaining a livelihood through fishing and oystering. The economy still carries echoes of that past, though modern agriculture now dominates the fields that were once more wild. You can still see the weathered planks of forgotten wharves, skeletal reminders of a more bustling era, and hear the distant hum of machinery from farms that now work the rich alluvial soil. The character of Nanticoke is that of quiet persistence, a place that has learned to bend with the seasons and the tides, holding its stories close like a well-worn coat.
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| Location | Nanticoke, Wicomico County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.272344°N, 75.905488°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 21840 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Nanticoke, 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 Nanticoke includes coordinates 38.272344°N, 75.905488°W, situated in Wicomico County. ZIP code 21840. 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.