Pastoria, Virginia Weather
Pastoria, 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 Pastoria, Accomack County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Pastoria. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Pastoria is published on the Accomack County Airport (KMFV) page, 16 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. 4 airfields within reach of Pastoria 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 Pastoria: Wallops Flight Facility Airport (KWAL) 26 km · Tangier Island Airport (KTGI) 33 km · Crisfield-Somerset County Airport (KW41) 34 km
Conditions reported at KMFV describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pastoria specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pastoria.
About Pastoria, Virginia
Pastoria lies low, a whisper of land against the broad, slow reach of the Chesapeake Bay. It lies 30.2 miles south-south-west of Worcester, MD (from Worcester, MD: bearing 201°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east-north-east of Onancock. The soil here is a dark, rich loam, the kind that remembers the sea and holds the memory of rain long after the clouds have passed. Fields of corn, their stalks reaching toward the wide, pale sky, stretch out like a rumpled, green blanket, broken here and there by the deeper, more somber hue of pine stands. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint, briny tang, a constant reminder of the water that shapes the very character of this place, a subtle, salty breath that settles on everything. The houses, mostly low-slung and weathered, seem to have grown organically from the land, their paint peeling with a quiet dignity. The history of Pastoria is as deeply rooted as the ancient oaks that sometimes stand sentinel at the edge of the woods. This was a place of ports and landings, where the bounty of the Eastern Shore found its way to wider markets, a quiet hub for the oyster and fishing fleets that have always been the lifeblood of this coastal fringe. The economy, while diversified now, still hums with the rhythm of the water. You can see it in the small, independent seafood markets, their coolers filled with the day's catch, and in the quiet pride of the watermen who still navigate these tidal creeks. There's a sense of continuity here, a feeling that the generations have lived and worked this same land, their stories carried on the wind, a quiet testament to resilience and a deep connection to the rhythms of nature.
Live animated radar for Pastoria 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 | Pastoria, Accomack County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.749851°N, 75.630207°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23421 |
| Area Code | 757 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pastoria, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pastoria, 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 Pastoria includes coordinates 37.749851°N, 75.630207°W, situated in Accomack County. ZIP code 23421. 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.
