Creswell, North Carolina Weather
Creswell, North Carolina — 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 Creswell, Washington County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Creswell. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Creswell is published on the Northeastern Regional Airport (KEDE) page, 24 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. 4 airfields within reach of Creswell 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 Creswell: Plymouth Municipal Airport (KPMZ) 34 km · Elizabeth City Regional Airport & Coast Guard Air Station (KECG) 48 km · Hyde County Airport (K7W6) 52 km
Conditions reported at KEDE describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Creswell specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Creswell.
About Creswell, North Carolina
Creswell unfolds across a low-lying landscape where the land itself seems to sigh with the weight of the surrounding wetlands and the broad, languid sweep of the Chowan River. It lies 57.5 miles east-north-east of Greenville, NC (from Greenville, NC: bearing 72°T), and is situated 8.5 miles west-south-west of Columbia. Here, the air, thick and humid even on a bright afternoon, carries the scent of damp earth, pine needles, and the distant, briny breath of the Albemarle Sound. Cypress knees, gnarled like ancient knuckles, break the surface of still, dark waters, their reflections blurring into an Impressionistic wash of green and brown. The sky above Creswell often wears a peculiar, luminous quality, especially as dusk settles, painting the clouds in bruised purples and muted oranges, a silent testament to the vast, open skies that dominate this eastern North Carolina terrain. The history of Creswell is inextricably linked to the agricultural bounty of its fertile soil and the vital arteries of its waterways. For generations, farming has been the lifeblood, with fields of corn and soybeans stretching to the horizon, their golden stalks rustling in the breeze like hushed conversations. The legacy of cotton plantations, though faded, still whispers in the wind that sweeps across these agricultural plains. The Chowan River, a constant presence, has long served as both highway and sustenance, its waters once carrying the goods and gossip of a burgeoning settlement and now offering a tranquil stage for recreation. Creswell, though modest in its scale, holds within its quiet streets the echoes of a past deeply rooted in the land and its enduring, sometimes challenging, relationship with the water.
Live animated radar for Creswell 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 | Creswell, Washington County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 35.870442°N, 76.392155°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 27928 |
| Area Code | 919, 984 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Creswell, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Creswell, North Carolina, 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 Creswell includes coordinates 35.870442°N, 76.392155°W, situated in Washington County. ZIP code 27928. Telephone area code: 919, 984. 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.
