Essex, Virginia Weather
Essex, Virginia — 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 Essex, Essex County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Essex. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Essex is published on the Tappahannock-Essex County Airport (KXSA) page, 14 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 Essex 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 Essex: Mary Walker LZ Airport (KAPH) 33 km · Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Center Airport (KNDY) 41 km · Hanover County Municipal Airport (KOFP) 50 km · Naval Outlying Landing Field Webster (KNUI) 51 km · Middle Peninsula Regional Airport (KFYJ) 53 km
Conditions reported at KXSA describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Essex specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Essex.
About Essex, Virginia
Essex breathes the damp, salt-tinged air of the Rappahannock River, a broad, languid artery that whispers of tides and distant Chesapeake Bay. It lies 31.2 miles south of Wicomico, MD (from Wicomico, MD: bearing 189°T), and is situated 6.4 miles west-north-west of Tappahannock. The land here is a low, fertile plain, crisscrossed by creeks that snake through stands of loblolly pine and shadowy oak, their branches heavy with Spanish moss. Fields, some still tilled, others surrendered to the slow embrace of nature, stretch towards the water's edge, a patchwork of muted greens and earthy browns under a sky that often hangs a soft, pewter gray. The roads wind with the contours of the terrain, lined by weathered fences and the occasional stately, if a little weary, historic home, its white paint peeling like sun-baked skin. The story of Essex is deeply entwined with the river that defines it, a place where tobacco once flowed as readily as water, shaping fortunes and the very character of the place. Remnants of that agrarian past linger in the quiet rhythm of life, a pace dictated less by the clock and more by the seasons. Today, the economy finds its footing in aquaculture, particularly oysters, their briny harvest a modern echo of the bounty nature has always offered. Along the waterfront, small marinas hum with the gentle putter of boats, a testament to the enduring connection to the water, while the scent of woodsmoke often drifts from chimneys in the cooler months, a comforting signal of hearth and home in this enduring corner of Virginia.
Live animated radar for Essex 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 | Essex, Essex County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.967168°N, 76.964306°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 22436, 22560 |
| Area Code | 540 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Essex, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Essex, Virginia, 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 Essex includes coordinates 37.967168°N, 76.964306°W, situated in Essex County. ZIP code 22436, 22560. Telephone area code: 540. 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.
