Pennsville, 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 Pennsville, Salem County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Pennsville. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Pennsville is published on the Wilmington Airport (KILG) page, 8 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 Pennsville 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 Pennsville: Summit Airport (KEVY) 23 km · New Garden Airport (KN57) 29 km · Cecil County Airport (K58M) 32 km · Philadelphia International Airport (KPHL) 34 km · Bucks Airport (K00N) 35 km
Conditions reported at KILG describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pennsville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pennsville.
Pennsville exhales a quiet dignity along the Delaware River’s edge, a low-slung place where the land itself seems to lean towards the water. It lies 6.6 miles south-south-east of Wilmington, DE (from Wilmington, DE: bearing 166°T), and is situated 7.7 miles east-north-east of Bear. The terrain here is a gentle, yielding flatness, etched by the slow, persistent work of tides and the occasional, determined bloom of salt-tolerant grasses pushing through the sandy loam. Along the waterfront, weathered pilings stand like stoic sentinels, remnants of a more boisterous maritime past, now softened by the pervasive whisper of marsh reeds and the distant cries of gulls. The air, especially as the sun begins its descent, carries a subtle salinity, a damp caress that hints at the vastness of the ocean just beyond the river’s mouth, and the light itself seems to pool and spread, a soft, diffused glow that softens the edges of warehouses and residential streets alike. This stretch of the Delaware River has always been a thoroughfare, and Pennsville’s history is tied to its currents, from the early ferry operations that connected it to the Delaware shore to the industrial pulse that once throbbed through its shipyards. The economic lifeblood of Pennsville has ebbed and flowed with the fortunes of the river, shifting from the robust trade of yesteryear to the more modern, though still vital, presence of port facilities and related industries that hum with a steady, pragmatic energy. The town carries a practical, no-nonsense character, a sense of people who understand the land and the water and their enduring relationship, a place where the past is not so much celebrated in grand monuments as it is quietly lived within the everyday cadence of its streets.
Live animated radar for Pennsville 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 | Pennsville, Salem County, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 39.653446°N, 75.516588°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 08070 |
| Area Code | 856, 609 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pennsville, 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 Pennsville includes coordinates 39.653446°N, 75.516588°W, situated in Salem County. ZIP code 08070. Telephone area code: 856, 609. 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.