Tangier, Virginia Weather
Tangier, 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 Tangier, Accomack County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Tangier. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Tangier is published on the Tangier Island Airport (KTGI) page, 1 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 Tangier 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 Tangier: Crisfield-Somerset County Airport (KW41) 26 km · Accomack County Airport (KMFV) 28 km · Hummel Field (KW75) 47 km · Wallops Flight Facility Airport (KWAL) 48 km · Naval Outlying Landing Field Webster (KNUI) 52 km
Conditions reported at KTGI describe the airfield itself. Weather 1 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Tangier specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Tangier.
About Tangier, Virginia
Tangier lies low and flat, a scattering of islands in the Chesapeake Bay, where the sky seems to press down with a peculiar, soft weight. It lies 28.0 miles south-east of Saint Marys, MD (from Saint Marys, MD: bearing 134°T), and is situated 13.2 miles south-west of Crisfield. The landscape here is water-lapped and wind-scoured, a place where marsh grasses ripple like green silk and the distant horizon is a constant, hazy invitation. The air carries the tang of salt and the faint, sweet perfume of unseen wildflowers, a scent that clings to the weathered clapboard houses and the sturdy fishing boats bobbing in the narrow channels. Here, the land is not a grand stage but an intimate whisper, a place where the rhythm of the tides dictates the pace of everything. The history of Tangier is as much about the water as it is about the people who have coaxed a living from it for generations. This island community, once larger and more connected to the mainland, now finds its economy almost entirely tethered to the bounty of the bay – primarily crabbing and oystering. The distinctive dialect, a linguistic echo of Elizabethan English, is a living testament to the islands' isolation and enduring traditions, a unique cultural inheritance passed down through the close-knit families that call Tangier home. The constant, subtle erosion of the shoreline is a quiet reminder of nature's power, a force that has shaped and continues to shape the very existence of this remarkable place.
Live animated radar for Tangier 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 | Tangier, Accomack County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.826237°N, 75.991604°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23440 |
| Area Code | 757 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Tangier, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tangier, 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 Tangier includes coordinates 37.826237°N, 75.991604°W, situated in Accomack County. ZIP code 23440. 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.
