Rockingham, Virginia Weather
Rockingham, 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 Rockingham, Rockingham County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Rockingham. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Rockingham is published on the New Market Airport (K8W2) page, 17 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 Rockingham 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 Rockingham: Bridgewater Air Park (KVBW) 25 km · Luray Caverns Airport (KLUA) 35 km · Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport (KSHD) 36 km
Conditions reported at K8W2 describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rockingham specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rockingham.
About Rockingham, Virginia
Rockingham rests in a broad valley where the Shenandoah River, a ribbon of silver, meanders through fertile land. It lies 9.2 miles north of Harrisonburg, VA (from Harrisonburg, VA: bearing 355°T), and is situated 5.0 miles west-south-west of Broadway. The landscape here is a generous embrace of rolling hills, their green slopes softened by the hazy light of late afternoon, giving way to the imposing, blue-grey shoulders of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. Fields of corn and wheat, ripe and ready, stretch toward the horizon, their straight rows a testament to human endeavor against the wilder inclinations of nature. The air itself carries a clean, earthy scent, a blend of damp soil and sun-warmed grass, a perfume that has soothed generations. This region, Rockingham, has long been a crossroads, its history etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring cycles of agriculture and the quiet industry that has sustained its people. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of rich soil, established farms that continue to be the lifeblood of the economy, their harvests feeding not just the local tables but markets far beyond. The legacy of those pioneers is palpable in the sturdy, weathered barns and the well-tended homesteads that dot the countryside. It is a place where the past lives in the present, where the sound of a tractor’s engine in the morning is as familiar as the distant call of a hawk overhead.
Live animated radar for Rockingham 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 | Rockingham, Rockingham County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 38.582592°N, 78.883555°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 22834, 22801 |
| Area Code | 540 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rockingham, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rockingham, 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 Rockingham includes coordinates 38.582592°N, 78.883555°W, situated in Rockingham County. ZIP code 22834, 22801. 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.
