Horntown, Virginia Weather
Horntown, 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 Horntown, Accomack County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Horntown. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Horntown is published on the Wallops Flight Facility Airport (KWAL) page, 3 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 Horntown 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 Horntown: Crisfield-Somerset County Airport (KW41) 32 km · Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (KSBY) 41 km · Accomack County Airport (KMFV) 44 km · Ocean City Municipal Airport (KOXB) 48 km · Tangier Island Airport (KTGI) 50 km
Conditions reported at KWAL describe the airfield itself. Weather 3 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Horntown specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Horntown.
About Horntown, Virginia
Horntown exhales a quiet breath of salt and pine onto the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It lies 13.1 miles south of Worcester, MD (from Worcester, MD: bearing 187°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south-east of Pocomoke City. The landscape here is a gentle embrace of marsh grasses yielding to the broad sweep of fields, their greens and golds softened by the pervasive, pearlescent light that filters through the coastal sky. Live oaks, gnarled and patient, stand sentinel along the edges of dirt tracks, their branches dripping with Spanish moss like old lace. The air itself feels permeable, carrying the distant murmur of the Chesapeake Bay and the sharp, clean scent of the ocean, a constant reminder of the water that shapes every aspect of life in Horntown. The history of this place is written in the soil and the shallow waterways that thread through it, echoes of a time when fishing boats and oystermen were the lifeblood of Horntown. Today, agriculture still holds sway, with fields of corn and soybeans stretching towards the horizon, but the maritime heritage remains palpable, a persistent hum beneath the surface of everyday life. The economy, once deeply tied to the bounty of the bay, now sees a blend of farming and the quiet tourism that drifts in on the tide, drawn to the unspoiled beauty and the unhurried pace. It’s a place where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the day, and the stories of generations past linger in the rustle of the reeds and the calls of unseen shorebirds.
Live animated radar for Horntown 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 | Horntown, Accomack County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.969567°N, 75.463812°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23395 |
| Area Code | 757 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Horntown, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Horntown, 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 Horntown includes coordinates 37.969567°N, 75.463812°W, situated in Accomack County. ZIP code 23395. Telephone area code: 757. 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.
