Topsail Beach, North Carolina Weather
Topsail Beach, 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 Topsail Beach, Pender County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Topsail Beach. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Topsail Beach is published on the Wilmington International Airport (KILM) page, 27 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 Topsail Beach 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 Topsail Beach: MCAS New River / McCutcheon Field (KNCA) 42 km · Albert J Ellis Airport (KOAJ) 52 km · Henderson Field (KACZ) 52 km
Conditions reported at KILM describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Topsail Beach specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Topsail Beach.
About Topsail Beach, North Carolina
Topsail Beach unfurls along a slender barrier island, a sliver of land where the Atlantic Ocean whispers secrets to the Intracoastal Waterway. It lies 20.4 miles east-north-east of Wilmington, NC (from Wilmington, NC: bearing 62°T), and is situated 4.6 miles east of Hampstead. The sand here, a fine, pale powder, yields softly underfoot, stretching for miles in a gentle curve. Dunes, cloaked in sea oats that sway like emerald dancers in the constant breeze, rise and fall, offering glimpses of the vast, ever-changing canvas of the sea. The air itself is a palpable presence, thick with the tang of salt and the faint, sweet perfume of coastal wildflowers. Sunlight, especially as it begins its descent, spills across the water in liquid gold, painting the sky in hues of apricot and rose, a daily benediction for this tranquil shore. This stretch of coast, long a haven for fishermen and those seeking respite from the mainland's bustle, carries echoes of a more industrial past. For decades, the island was a testing ground, a place where rockets roared skyward, leaving their fiery trails against the blue. Though those days are gone, a sense of quiet industry persists, tied to the sea's bounty and the steady stream of visitors drawn to its shores. The local economy thrives on the rhythm of tides and the ebb and flow of vacationers, their laughter mingling with the cries of gulls. Topsail Beach, with its unpretentious charm and enduring connection to the natural world, remains a place where time seems to stretch and soften, much like the shoreline itself.
Live animated radar for Topsail Beach 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 | Topsail Beach, Pender County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 34.365168°N, 77.630529°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28445 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Topsail Beach, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Topsail Beach, 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 Topsail Beach includes coordinates 34.365168°N, 77.630529°W, situated in Pender County. ZIP code 28445. 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.
