Freehold, New Jersey Weather
Freehold, New Jersey — 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 Freehold, Monmouth County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Freehold. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Freehold is published on the Old Bridge Airport (K3N6) page, 10 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 Freehold 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 Freehold: Monmouth Executive Airport (KBLM) 15 km · Lakewood Airport (KN12) 23 km · Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport (KNEL) 26 km · Mc Guire Air Force Base (KWRI) 38 km · Linden Airport (KLDJ) 40 km
Conditions reported at K3N6 describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Freehold specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Freehold.
About Freehold, New Jersey
Freehold unfolds as a landscape of gentle swells and verdant expanses, where the horizon often offers a soft, undulating line of distant trees. It lies 6.4 miles east of Manalapan, NJ (from Manalapan, NJ: bearing 88°T), and is situated 7.9 miles west of Monmouth. The air here, particularly on a late afternoon, can carry a peculiar sweetness, a blend of sun-baked earth and the faint, clean scent of agricultural fields, hinting at the bounty that has long been coaxed from this soil. Ancient oaks, their branches gnarled like arthritic hands, stand sentinel over open fields, their leaves a deep, resonant green that deepens to a near-black in the fading light. The terrain, neither dramatically mountainous nor flatly prairie, possesses a subtle, rolling character that feels both grounded and inviting, a place where the eye can trace the slow, deliberate curves of the land. This heart of Monmouth County, Freehold, carries echoes of its past in the very layout of its streets and the enduring structures that mark its center. Once a vital crossroads for agricultural trade, its economy has transitioned, but a connection to the land persists, evident in the surrounding farms that still punctuate the landscape. The stories of its founding, of early settlers carving out a life from this fertile ground, seem to whisper from the clapboard facades of older buildings and the quiet dignity of its historic courthouse. Freehold's character is that of a community that has weathered change with a steady resolve, a place where the pace of life, while modern, retains a certain thoughtful deliberation, a quiet hum of everyday existence punctuated by the distant cry of a hawk or the rustle of wind through corn stalks.
Live animated radar for Freehold 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 | Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 40.260111°N, 74.273757°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 07728 |
| Area Code | 732, 848 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Freehold, New Jersey Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Freehold, New Jersey, 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 Freehold includes coordinates 40.260111°N, 74.273757°W, situated in Monmouth County. ZIP code 07728. Telephone area code: 732, 848. 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.
