Highland Park, Pennsylvania Weather
Highland Park, Pennsylvania — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Highland Park, Cumberland County.
Full aviation weather for Highland Park is published on the Capital City Airport (KCXY) page, 4 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 Highland Park 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 Highland Park: Harrisburg International Airport (KMDT) 13 km · Donegal Springs Airpark (KN71) 32 km · Muir Army Air Field (Fort Indiantown Gap) Airport (KMUI) 36 km · Deck Airport (K9D4) 50 km · Lancaster Airport (KLNS) 53 km
Conditions reported at KCXY describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Highland Park specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Highland Park.
About Highland Park, Pennsylvania
Highland Park unfurls across a landscape sculpted by the gentle persistence of water and earth, where rolling terrain gives way to the quiet murmur of nearby creeks. It lies 3.0 miles south-south-west of Harrisburg, PA (from Harrisburg, PA: bearing 197°T), and is situated 7.9 miles south-west of Lower Paxton. The land here breathes with the soft green of cultivated fields and the deeper hues of maturing woodlands, a verdant quilt stitched with the silver threads of small waterways that thread their way through the countryside. Sunlight, especially as it slants low in the afternoon, casts long, melancholic shadows across the meadows, imbuing the very air with a sense of ancient stillness. The character of Highland Park is one of quiet endurance, a place where the seasons dictate a steady, unhurried pace, and the distant hum of agricultural machinery is often the loudest sound to break the natural quiet. The history of Highland Park is intertwined with the fertile soil and the industrious spirit of its early settlers, who found here a bounty that sustained them and fostered a burgeoning local economy built on agriculture and a touch of light manufacturing. The echoes of this past can still be discerned in the sturdy, unpretentious architecture of older buildings and the enduring traditions of community gatherings that mark the passage of time. While the specific industries may have shifted over the decades, the legacy of hard work and resourcefulness remains a defining characteristic of Highland Park, a quiet testament to the generations who have called this place home. The nearby waterways, once vital arteries for commerce and sustenance, now offer a more serene beauty, reflecting the sky and providing a tranquil counterpoint to the enduring, grounded spirit of the community.
Live animated radar for Highland Park 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 | Highland Park, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40.231757°N, 76.901363°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 17044, 18960, 18045, 17009 |
| 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 |
About This Highland Park, Pennsylvania Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Highland Park, 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 Highland Park includes coordinates 40.231757°N, 76.901363°W, situated in Cumberland County. ZIP code 17044, 18960, 18045, 17009. 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.
