Vanceboro, 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 Vanceboro, Craven County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Vanceboro. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Vanceboro is published on the Coastal Carolina Regional Airport (KEWN) page, 28 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 Vanceboro 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 Vanceboro: Warren Field (KOCW) 31 km · Kinston Regional Jetport At Stallings Field (KISO) 41 km · Pitt-Greenville Airport (KPGV) 42 km
Conditions reported at KEWN describe the airfield itself. Weather 28 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Vanceboro specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Vanceboro.
Vanceboro rests in the broad, flat embrace of Craven County, where the Coastal Plain begins its slow, almost imperceptible surrender to the Atlantic. It lies 15.2 miles north-north-west of New Bern, NC (from New Bern, NC: bearing 336°T), and is situated 5.7 miles north-west of Ernul. Here, the land is a deep, fertile loam, crisscrossed by drainage ditches that whisper of the surrounding wetlands and the nearby Neuse River. Ancient live oaks, draped in Spanish moss like spectral beards, stand sentinel along the unpaved lanes, their gnarled branches reaching towards a sky that often hangs heavy with the humid breath of the coast. The air itself carries a subtle, earthy perfume, a mix of pine needles, damp soil, and the distant, briny tang of the sea, a scent that clings to everything like the pervasive, golden light that softens the edges of Vanceboro at dusk. The history of Vanceboro is as deeply rooted as the cypress trees that line its waterways, a story intrinsically tied to the agricultural bounty of this region. For generations, the economy has been shaped by the cultivation of tobacco and cotton, crops that once defined the very rhythm of life here, their harvest dictating the ebb and flow of activity. Though the agricultural landscape has shifted, a quiet tenacity persists, with farms still dotting the horizon, their fields a patchwork of green and gold under the vast Carolina sky. Vanceboro remains a place where the past is not so much a relic as a quiet presence, felt in the weathered wood of old barns and the slow, deliberate pace of a community accustomed to the enduring cycles of the land.
Live animated radar for Vanceboro 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 | Vanceboro, Craven County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 35.308495°N, 77.15412°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28586 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Vanceboro, 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 Vanceboro includes coordinates 35.308495°N, 77.154120°W, situated in Craven County. ZIP code 28586. 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.