Nassau, New York Weather
Nassau, New York — 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 Nassau, Rensselaer County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Nassau.
About Nassau, New York
Nassau unfolds across rolling hills, a landscape etched by the slow, persistent work of glaciers and time. It lies 12.0 miles south-east of Albany, NY (from Albany, NY: bearing 142°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south-east of East Greenbush. The terrain here rises and falls with a gentle, persistent undulation, a verdant canvas of mixed hardwoods and open fields that catch the sun in broad, golden swaths. The air, especially after a rain, carries a clean, earthy scent, a promise of damp soil and growing things, and in the late afternoon, the light slants low, painting the western sky in hues of bruised plum and soft apricot, casting long shadows that stretch and deepen across the land. The Rensselaer County countryside around Nassau breathes a quiet, enduring character, a place where the land itself seems to hold its breath, waiting for the next season’s turn. The history of Nassau is tied to the agricultural roots that still define its economy, with farms dotting the surrounding countryside, their barns weathered by generations of sun and snow. Early settlers found fertile ground here, a place to sow and harvest, and that spirit of self-sufficiency, of working with the land, still resonates in the quiet hum of daily life. While industrial booms might have bypassed this particular stretch of New York, Nassau has found its enduring strength in its connection to the land and its community. The small businesses that line Main Street, the schoolhouses that still gather young minds, all speak to a continuity, a slow, steady pulse that has kept Nassau alive and breathing through the changing tides of the wider world.
Live animated radar for Nassau 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.
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| Location | Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York |
| Coordinates | 42.515914°N, 73.610116°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 12123 |
| Area Code | 518 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Nassau, New York Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Nassau, New York, 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 Nassau includes coordinates 42.515914°N, 73.610116°W, situated in Rensselaer County. ZIP code 12123. Telephone area code: 518. 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.
