Quantico, Maryland Weather
Quantico, 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 Quantico, Wicomico County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Quantico. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Quantico is published on the Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (KSBY) page, 21 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 Quantico 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 Quantico: Cambridge Dorchester Airport (KCGE) 31 km · Crisfield-Somerset County Airport (KW41) 40 km · Delaware Coastal Airport (KGED) 48 km · Wallops Flight Facility Airport (KWAL) 54 km · Ocean City Municipal Airport (KOXB) 54 km
Conditions reported at KSBY describe the airfield itself. Weather 21 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Quantico specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Quantico.
About Quantico, Maryland
Quantico, Maryland, breathes the salty air of the Eastern Shore, a place where the land gently slopes towards the wide embrace of the Wicomico River. It lies 7.8 miles west of Salisbury, MD (from Salisbury, MD: bearing 277°T), and is situated 7.5 miles west-north-west of Fruitland. The terrain here is a low-lying tapestry of fertile farmland and marshy wetlands, punctuated by stands of loblolly pine and the occasional ancient oak, their branches gnarled like the hands of time. Sunlight, when it breaks through the humid haze that often hangs in the air, casts a soft, diffused glow, softening the edges of everything it touches, from the weathered clapboard of farmhouses to the quiet glint of water in the distance. The very air carries a faint, earthy scent, a mingling of damp soil, ripening crops, and the distant, briny tang of the Chesapeake. The history of Quantico is deeply intertwined with the agricultural bounty of the Wicomico River's watershed. For generations, this land has been cultivated, yielding a steady harvest that has sustained its people and fed the wider region. The economy, while diversified in modern times, still holds a reverence for the soil and the river’s gifts, with fishing and oystering forming a quiet, persistent undercurrent to the more visible agricultural endeavors. Though not a place of grand monuments, Quantico possesses a subtle character, a lived-in quality born from decades of quiet persistence, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life and the enduring connection to the land remains palpable.
Live animated radar for Quantico 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 | Quantico, Wicomico County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.374285°N, 75.74243°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 21856 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Quantico, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Quantico, 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 Quantico includes coordinates 38.374285°N, 75.742430°W, situated in Wicomico County. ZIP code 21856. 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. 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.
