Manteo, North Carolina Weather
Manteo, 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 Manteo, Dare County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Manteo. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Manteo is published on the Dare County Regional Airport (KMQI) page, 2 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 Manteo 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 Manteo: First Flight Airport (KFFA) 12 km · Hyde County Airport (K7W6) 46 km · Elizabeth City Regional Airport & Coast Guard Air Station (KECG) 60 km
Conditions reported at KMQI describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Manteo specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Manteo.
About Manteo, North Carolina
Manteo breathes a salty air, a place where the land surrenders to the water in a series of gentle inlets and marshy expanses. It lies 67.4 miles south-south-east of Virginia Beach, VA (from Virginia Beach, VA: bearing 165°T), and is situated 8.5 miles south of Kill Devil Hills. The landscape is a painter's palette of muted greens and blues, where the sky, often a vast, unbroken canvas, spills its light onto the shallow sounds and the rustling reeds. Live oaks, gnarled and ancient, stand sentinel along the shorelines, their Spanish moss a trailing veil, whispering secrets of the sea breeze. The character of Manteo is one of quiet resilience, a place where life moves with the ebb and flow of the tides, and the sun, when it breaks through the coastal haze, casts a golden, almost ethereal glow upon the weathered docks and the shimmering water. This coastal settlement, steeped in the lore of exploration and maritime endeavor, carries a history as deep as the surrounding waters. It was here, on these very shores, that early English colonists attempted to forge a new life, leaving behind echoes of ambition and hardship. The local economy, historically tied to the bounty of the sea, still sees fishing boats bobbing in the harbor, their nets a testament to a timeless pursuit. Today, Manteo also thrives on a different kind of harvest – tourism, drawn by the allure of its historic waterfront, the Elizabethan Gardens, and the dramatic reenactment of the Lost Colony. The Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse stands as a beacon, a silent guardian of the town's enduring connection to the water and its storied past.
Live animated radar for Manteo 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 | Manteo, Dare County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 35.908226°N, 75.67573°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28532, 27954 |
| Area Code | 910, 919, 984 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Manteo, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Manteo, 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 Manteo includes coordinates 35.908226°N, 75.675730°W, situated in Dare County. ZIP code 28532, 27954. Telephone area code: 910, 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.
