Maxton, North Carolina Weather
Maxton, 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 Maxton, Robeson County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Maxton. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Maxton is published on the Laurinburg Maxton Airport (KMEB) page, 6 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 Maxton 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 Maxton: Lumberton Regional Airport (KLBT) 30 km · Dillon County Airport (KDLC) 32 km · Marlboro County Jetport - H E Avent Field Airport (KBBP) 37 km · Richmond County Airport (KRCZ) 41 km · Cheraw Municipal Airport/Lynch Bellinger Field (KCQW) 56 km
Conditions reported at KMEB describe the airfield itself. Weather 6 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Maxton specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Maxton.
About Maxton, North Carolina
Maxton rests in a low-lying pocket of southeastern North Carolina, where the land flattens and the air grows thick with the scent of pine and damp earth. It lies 33.9 miles south-west of Fort Bragg, NC (from Fort Bragg, NC: bearing 215°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east-south-east of Laurinburg. The terrain here is a subtle, almost imperceptible swell, a gentle cradle of sandy loam that has long surrendered itself to the plow and the slow, meandering courses of nearby waterways. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch towards horizons softened by the humid haze, their green and gold hues deepening as the sun begins its slow descent, painting the sky in shades of bruised plum and pale apricot. The silence of these open spaces is profound, broken only by the distant hum of a tractor or the sudden, startled cry of a bird taking flight. This corner of Robeson County carries the quiet weight of its past, a history shaped by agriculture and the enduring presence of the Lumbee people, whose ancestral lands have always defined this landscape. For generations, the economy of Maxton has been tethered to the land, its fortunes rising and falling with the harvests. The town itself, a collection of weathered brick buildings and modest homes, holds a certain stoic charm, a testament to resilience rather than grandeur. The Lumbee River, a ribbon of dark water that flows through the county, has been both a source of life and a silent witness to the ebb and flow of human endeavors, its banks holding stories whispered on the breeze about the generations who have called Maxton home.
Live animated radar for Maxton 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 | Maxton, Robeson County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 34.735162°N, 79.348932°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28364 |
| Area Code | 704, 980 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Maxton, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Maxton, 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 Maxton includes coordinates 34.735162°N, 79.348932°W, situated in Robeson County. ZIP code 28364. Telephone area code: 704, 980. 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.
