Tabor City, North Carolina Weather
Tabor City, 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 Tabor City, Columbus County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Tabor City. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Tabor City is published on the Twin City Airport (K5J9) 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 Tabor City 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 Tabor City: Green Sea Airport (KS79) 14 km · Columbus County Municipal Airport (KCPC) 20 km · Grand Strand Airport (KCRE) 40 km · Conway Horry County Airport (KHYW) 42 km · Marion County Airport (KMAO) 42 km
Conditions reported at K5J9 describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Tabor City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Tabor City.
About Tabor City, North Carolina
Tabor City rests in a landscape of subtle, fertile flatness, where the air often carries the humid scent of pine and damp earth, especially after a summer shower. It lies 23.7 miles north-north-east of Conway, SC (from Conway, SC: bearing 24°T), and is situated 6.4 miles north of Loris. The land here unfolds in wide, unassuming fields, stretching towards horizons softened by a haze that can, at dusk, turn the sky into a wash of bruised peach and lavender. Live oaks, draped with Spanish moss, punctuate the edges of these fields, their branches reaching out like ancient, gnarled arms. The roads, mostly straight and well-worn, cut through this expanse, connecting scattered farmhouses and groves of towering, straight-trunked pines, their needles whispering secrets on the breeze. The history of Tabor City is intertwined with the cultivation of its rich soil, a legacy that has shaped its economy around agriculture, particularly tobacco and cotton in earlier times, and now more diversified crops. The town’s character reflects this agrarian past, a quiet industriousness that hums beneath a generally unhurried pace of life. You can still see the echoes of this heritage in the sturdy, simple architecture of its older buildings, and in the way the community rallies around its local events. While the bustling beaches of the coast are not far, Tabor City maintains its own distinct, inland charm, a place where the quiet persistence of nature and human endeavor have shaped a singular corner of eastern North Carolina.
Live animated radar for Tabor City 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 | Tabor City, Columbus County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 34.14878°N, 78.876692°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28463 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Tabor City, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tabor City, 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 Tabor City includes coordinates 34.148780°N, 78.876692°W, situated in Columbus County. ZIP code 28463. Telephone area code: 910. 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.
