Woolford, 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 Woolford, Dorchester County.
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Woolford’s character is etched into the low, yielding land, a place where the air hangs thick with the scent of salt and pine. It lies 19.4 miles south of Talbot, MD (from Talbot, MD: bearing 188°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south-west of Cambridge. Fields of soybeans and corn stretch toward the horizon, their emerald and gold hues softening under the wide, pale sky that seems to press down on everything. The few scattered houses, weathered by decades of wind and sun, huddle close to the narrow, winding roads, their porches often empty, waiting for a breeze that seldom comes strong enough to stir the heavy, humid air. Here, the quiet is profound, broken only by the distant drone of a boat engine or the mournful cry of a gull circling overhead, a sound that seems to carry the weight of the bay itself. This land, once the domain of watermen and farmers, still carries the echoes of its past. The economy of Woolford is a quiet continuation of what has always sustained it: the bounty of the Chesapeake and the fertility of its soil. Generations have learned the rhythms of the tides and the seasons, their lives intertwined with the oyster beds and the ripening corn. While the larger towns of Dorchester County have seen more dramatic shifts, Woolford retains a steadfastness, a refusal to be hurried. Its history is not marked by grand monuments, but by the enduring presence of weathered barns, the gentle erosion of the marshy edges where fresh water meets the brackish, and the unpretentious pride of its residents in a way of life that has, for the most part, remained unchanged.
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| Location | Woolford, Dorchester County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38.502621°N, 76.183276°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 21677 |
| 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 Woolford, 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 Woolford includes coordinates 38.502621°N, 76.183276°W, situated in Dorchester County. ZIP code 21677. 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.