Plainview, New York Weather
Plainview, New York — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Plainview, Nassau County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Plainview. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Plainview is published on the Republic Airport (KFRG) page, 7 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 Plainview 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 Plainview: John F. Kennedy International Airport (KJFK) 30 km · Long Island MacArthur Airport (KISP) 31 km · LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) 34 km · Westchester County Airport (KHPN) 38 km · Brookhaven Calabro Airport (KHWV) 51 km
Conditions reported at KFRG describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Plainview specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Plainview, New York
Plainview unfolds across a landscape of gentle, almost imperceptible rises, a terrain that once whispered of farms and open fields before the steady hum of suburban life took hold. It lies 3.1 miles east of Hicksville, NY (from Hicksville, NY: bearing 80°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south-south-east of Oyster Bay. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a soft, humid warmth, tinged with the distant scent of mown grass and the faint exhaust of passing cars, a scent that clings to the broad, leafy trees lining the residential streets. Houses, predominantly split-levels and colonials with their neat lawns and flowerbeds, form a mosaic of muted colors under a sky that often stretches wide and pale, reflecting the diffused light of the Atlantic not too far to the south. The streets themselves are laid out in a grid, a deliberate order that belies the organic spread of the community, and one can sense a quiet industriousness in the way mail carriers make their rounds and the distant rumble of lawnmowers on a Saturday morning. This stretch of Long Island, including Plainview, carries the echoes of its agricultural past, a memory of fertile soil that fed growing populations before the post-war boom transformed it into a quintessential American suburb. The local economy, now primarily driven by retail, services, and the commuting workforce, retains a practical, no-nonsense character, a continuation of the spirit that built homes and businesses with determined hands. While no grand historical monuments punctuate its landscape, the very design of Plainview, with its network of schools and parks, speaks to a collective investment in community and a future built on solid foundations. The legacy of its development is visible in the well-maintained infrastructure and the enduring sense of neighborhood that permeates its streets, a testament to the generations who have called Plainview home.
Live animated radar for Plainview 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 | Plainview, Nassau County, New York |
| Coordinates | 40.776488°N, 73.467346°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 11803 |
| Area Code | 845 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Plainview, New York Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Plainview, New York, 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 Plainview includes coordinates 40.776488°N, 73.467346°W, situated in Nassau County. ZIP code 11803. Telephone area code: 845. 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.
