Rectortown, Virginia Weather
Rectortown, 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 Rectortown, Fauquier County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Rectortown. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Rectortown is published on the Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD) page, 35 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 Rectortown 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 Rectortown: Washington Manassas Harry P. Davis Field (KHEF) 37 km · Warrenton Fauquier Airport (KHWY) 40 km · Culpeper Regional Airport (KCJR) 44 km
Conditions reported at KIAD describe the airfield itself. Weather 35 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rectortown specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rectortown.
About Rectortown, Virginia
Rectortown lies spread across the rolling Piedmont landscape, a quiet collection of homes and businesses where the paved roads eventually yield to gravel tracks winding through fields of gold and green. It lies 19.0 miles north-west of Linton Hall, VA (from Linton Hall, VA: bearing 306°T), and is situated 3.9 miles north of Marshall. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a subtle, earthy perfume of turned soil and distant woodsmoke, a scent that clings to the skin like fine dust. Oak and maple trees, their branches reaching outward like patient arms, punctuate the horizon, their leaves a shifting mosaic of emerald and russet depending on the season, offering dappled shade across driveways and front porches. The terrain, a gentle swell and dip, suggests the passage of ancient waterways, the land itself seeming to breathe with a slow, steady cadence. The history of Rectortown is deeply entwined with the agricultural heritage of Fauquier County, a place where the land has long been a primary source of sustenance and prosperity. For generations, its economy has been shaped by the cycles of farming, with crops like corn and soybeans defining the seasons and the livelihoods of its residents. While the larger agricultural operations still dominate, a growing number of small, independent farms and artisanal producers have begun to carve out their own niches, contributing to a quiet resurgence of local enterprise. The character of Rectortown is one of enduring resilience, a community that has weathered economic shifts by holding fast to its agrarian roots, its people possessing a quiet pragmatism born of working the land. The faint, rhythmic clang of a distant blacksmith's hammer, though rare now, still echoes in the memory of the place, a subtle reminder of skills and trades that once formed the very sinews of life here.
Live animated radar for Rectortown 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 | Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 38.921222°N, 77.861384°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 20115, 20140 |
| Area Code | 571, 703 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rectortown, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rectortown, 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 Rectortown includes coordinates 38.921222°N, 77.861384°W, situated in Fauquier County. ZIP code 20115, 20140. Telephone area code: 571, 703. 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.
