Colonial Heights, Virginia Weather
Colonial Heights, Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Colonial Heights, Stafford County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Colonial Heights.
About Colonial Heights, Virginia
Colonial Heights, a stretch of Stafford County land, unfurls with a quiet dignity, its terrain a gentle rise and fall of verdant slopes and low-lying flats. The air here, especially in the humid warmth of late spring, carries the damp, earthy scent of rich soil, a promise of the tenacious green that blankets the landscape. Mature oaks and maples, their branches reaching wide like gnarled fingers, stand sentinel over scattered residential pockets and commercial strips, their leaves whispering secrets to the breeze. The underlying geology, a bedrock of ancient sediment, lends a subtle resilience to the land, supporting the steady growth of both nature and human endeavor. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, often falls in broad, diffused shafts, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the stillness and hinting at the enduring character of this place. The history of Colonial Heights is as layered as the soil beneath it, a narrative woven from agricultural roots and the steady march of progress. Once part of a broader agricultural expanse, its development accelerated with the post-war boom, transforming fields into neighborhoods and small farms into burgeoning commercial centers. The local economy, while diversified, still carries echoes of its agrarian past, with a strong service sector and a growing retail presence supporting the daily lives of its residents. It’s a place where the rhythm of life, though touched by the convenience of modern amenities, retains a grounding in the land, a sense of continuity from the generations who worked this earth before. The absence of dramatic geographical features lends Colonial Heights a subtle, understated charm, its beauty found not in grand pronouncements but in the quiet persistence of its character, the way the light settles on a suburban street at dusk, or the steady hum of commerce that underpins its daily existence.
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| Location | Colonial Heights, Stafford County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 38.3085°N, 77.4505°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 24015, 24202, 22405, 23834 |
| Area Code | 540, 804 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Colonial Heights, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colonial Heights, Virginia, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Colonial Heights includes coordinates 38.308500°N, 77.450500°W, situated in Stafford County. ZIP code 24015, 24202, 22405, 23834. Telephone area code: 540, 804. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
