Southern Shores, North Carolina Weather
Southern Shores, 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 Southern Shores, Dare County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Southern Shores. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Southern Shores is published on the First Flight Airport (KFFA) page, 14 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 Southern Shores 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 Southern Shores: Dare County Regional Airport (KMQI) 25 km · Currituck County Regional Airport (KONX) 39 km · Elizabeth City Regional Airport & Coast Guard Air Station (KECG) 42 km
Conditions reported at KFFA describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Southern Shores specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Southern Shores.
About Southern Shores, North Carolina
Southern Shores sits where the Atlantic's breath is a constant presence, a slender finger of land reaching out towards the open sea. It lies 51.2 miles south-south-east of Virginia Beach, VA (from Virginia Beach, VA: bearing 164°T), and is situated 8.1 miles north-north-west of Kill Devil Hills. The landscape here is a delicate balance of shifting sands and resilient pines, their needles whispering secrets on the salty breeze. Winding roads disappear into a canopy of live oaks draped with Spanish moss, creating shaded tunnels that offer a fleeting respite from the sun's bright glare. The air itself carries a unique tang, a mixture of brine and pine sap, and the light, especially as dusk settles, can turn the sky into a bruised watercolour, bleeding hues of rose and lavender across the horizon. The houses, often elevated on stilts against the tides, seem to float amongst the trees, their decks and porches inviting quiet contemplation of the natural world that presses in from all sides. This stretch of the Outer Banks, Southern Shores, was largely undeveloped until the mid-20th century, a quiet corner of Dare County that remained largely a maritime forest and dune system. Its character is intrinsically tied to the ocean; the local economy, though diversified, still leans heavily on tourism and the services that support it, from the quaint shops lining the main thoroughfares to the charter boats that ply the nearby sounds. The history here is less about grand settlements and more about the hardy souls who understood the rhythms of the sea and the land, shaping a way of life that respects the environment. There are no towering monuments or ancient ruins, but rather a palpable sense of stewardship, a quiet understanding that the beauty of Southern Shores lies in its wildness, its ability to feel both accessible and profoundly remote.
Live animated radar for Southern Shores 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 | Southern Shores, Dare County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36.139053°N, 75.731572°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 27944, 27949 |
| Area Code | 919, 984 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Southern Shores, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Southern Shores, 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 Southern Shores includes coordinates 36.139053°N, 75.731572°W, situated in Dare County. ZIP code 27944, 27949. 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.
