Hillside, New Jersey Weather
Hillside, 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 for Hillside, Union County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Hillside. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Hillside is published on the Newark Liberty International Airport (KEWR) page, 5 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 Hillside 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 Hillside: Linden Airport (KLDJ) 9 km · Morristown Municipal Airport (KMMU) 19 km · Essex County Airport (KCDW) 20 km · Teterboro Airport (KTEB) 22 km · Somerset Airport (KSMQ) 38 km
Conditions reported at KEWR describe the airfield itself. Weather 5 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Hillside specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Hillside, New Jersey
Hillside rises from the gentle slopes that define this part of Union County, a landscape where the urban edge softens into a more varied terrain. It lies 2.2 miles south of Irvington, NJ (from Irvington, NJ: bearing 173°T), and is situated 8.8 miles west-south-west of Bergen. The streets here are often lined with mature trees, their canopies creating a dappled shade even on the brightest days, and the air carries a subtle, earthy scent, a reminder of the soil beneath. You can feel the subtle incline as you traverse the neighborhoods, a constant, almost imperceptible push and pull that shapes the way the water flows and the houses are positioned. It's a place where the sky feels vast, especially in the early morning or late afternoon, when the light can lend a golden hue to the rooftops and the distant hum of traffic seems to recede. The history of Hillside is a narrative of industry and community growth, with its roots in the agricultural past of the region giving way to the demands of a burgeoning industrial economy. Early settlers found fertile ground, and the area later became a vital stop for transportation and commerce. You can still sense the echoes of that industrious past in the architecture and the layout of some of the older districts, a quiet testament to the generations who worked and built here. Today, Hillside thrives on a diverse local economy, a blend of small businesses and service industries that cater to its residents, and the community retains a palpable sense of shared experience, a quiet understanding born of shared geography and history.
Live animated radar for Hillside 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 | Hillside, Union County, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 40.701213°N, 74.230146°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 07205 |
| Area Code | 973, 862 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Hillside, New Jersey Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hillside, 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 Hillside includes coordinates 40.701213°N, 74.230146°W, situated in Union County. ZIP code 07205. Telephone area code: 973, 862. 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.
