Douglassville, Pennsylvania — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Douglassville, Berks County.
Full aviation weather for Douglassville is published on the Pottstown Municipal Airport (KN47) page, 5 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 Douglassville 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 Douglassville: Heritage Field (KPTW) 14 km · Morgantown Airport (KO03) 16 km · Reading Regional Airport (Carl A Spaatz Field) (KRDG) 24 km · Quakertown Airport (KUKT) 35 km · Pennridge Airport (KCKZ) 40 km
Conditions reported at KN47 describe the airfield itself. Weather 5 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Douglassville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Douglassville.
Douglassville rests on the western bank of the Schuylkill River, a place where the land falls away in gentle slopes toward the water, then rises again into rolling hills that soften the horizon. It lies 11.9 miles east-south-east of Reading, PA (from Reading, PA: bearing 117°T), and is situated 4.1 miles west-north-west of Pottstown. The air here often carries the scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke, especially in the hushed hours of dawn and dusk, when the light spills across the river in long, golden shafts, illuminating the quiet persistence of the trees and the occasional glint of a weathered barn roof. The terrain itself is a mosaic of fertile bottomlands, perfect for cultivation, giving way to more rugged country as one ventures inland, where forests begin to claim the higher ground, their leafy canopies a deep, breathing green. This stretch of the Schuylkill has long been a conduit for life and commerce, its waters once powering mills and carrying goods, a history whispered by the remnants of old stone foundations along the riverbanks. Douglassville’s economy has been shaped by this proximity to the river and the surrounding fertile land; agriculture has always been a quiet backbone, but the echoes of industry can still be felt in the sturdy, practical architecture of older buildings. The landscape itself, sculpted by millennia of water and weather, now hosts a blend of residential areas and open spaces, where the pace of life seems to align with the slow, steady flow of the river, a rhythm that has persisted through generations.
Live animated radar for Douglassville 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.
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| Location | Douglassville, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40.257871°N, 75.726301°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 19518 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Douglassville, Pennsylvania, 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 Douglassville includes coordinates 40.257871°N, 75.726301°W, situated in Berks County. ZIP code 19518. Telephone area code: 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878. 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.