Weather and Nature

Madison weather

Temperature, rain and wind in Madison (New Jersey, United States), a city of about 16,126 people: how it is right now, hour by hour into tomorrow, the next 7 days and what each month of the year is like.

This page is not in Google’s index: the city is small, or it gets the same forecast as a large city next to it.

Right now

Thursday 15 October, 22:00 (America/New_York)

53 °F

Fair

Feels like

52 °F

Humidity

82%

Wind

6 mph

S · Beaufort 2

Dew point

48 °F

Cloud cover

24%

Pressure

1,021 hPa

Hour by hour

Next 24 hours, in the city’s local time.

TimeConditionsTemperatureRainWind
21:00Fair54 °F0.00 in6 mph
22:00Fair53 °F0.00 in6 mph
23:00Fair53 °F0.00 in6 mph
00:00Partly cloudy55 °F0.00 in6 mph
01:00Cloudy56 °F0.00 in6 mph
02:00Cloudy56 °F0.00 in5 mph
03:00Light rain57 °F0.01 in5 mph
04:00Rain57 °F0.02 in7 mph
05:00Rain57 °F0.02 in8 mph
06:00Rain57 °F0.02 in8 mph
07:00Rain58 °F0.02 in8 mph
08:00Rain58 °F0.02 in8 mph
09:00Cloudy60 °F0.00 in9 mph
10:00Cloudy64 °F0.00 in11 mph
11:00Light rain66 °F0.00 in11 mph
12:00Light rain67 °F0.00 in12 mph
13:00Cloudy70 °F0.00 in13 mph
14:00Clear sky75 °F0.00 in14 mph
15:00Clear sky76 °F0.00 in11 mph
16:00Clear sky77 °F0.00 in11 mph
17:00Clear sky77 °F0.00 in11 mph
18:00Heavy rain showers74 °F0.23 in13 mph
19:00Light rain68 °F0.00 in15 mph
20:00Cloudy65 °F0.00 in12 mph

Next 7 days

DayConditionsLowHighRain outlook
Thu 15/10Fair53 °F57 °Fno rain expected · 0.00 in
Fri 16/10Light rain53 °F77 °Frain possible · 0.35 in
Sat 17/10Cloudy39 °F61 °Fno rain expected · 0.00 in
Mon 19/10Partly cloudy42 °F60 °Fno rain expected · 0.00 in
Tue 20/10Fair48 °F66 °Fno rain expected · 0.00 in
Wed 21/10Clear sky47 °F65 °Fno rain expected · 0.00 in
Thu 22/10Cloudy45 °F57 °Frain possible · 0.24 in

This column is our own reading: the global model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region, so we classify the day from the forecast symbol and the total in millimetres. It is not an official probability figure.

Low, high and rain for the next 7 days in MadisonChart of the next 7 days in Madison: each day’s vertical band runs from the low to the high (from 39 °F to 77 °F across the week) and the bar at the base shows forecast rain, 0.58 in in total.32506886°Fin5753Thu 15/1077530.35Fri 16/106139Sat 17/106042Mon 19/106648Tue 20/106547Wed 21/1057450.24Thu 22/10

America/New_York

Our own chart, drawn from the 7-day forecast for Madison shown above.

What each number means

Rain (mm)
1 millimetre of rain is 1 litre of water per square metre. Up to 2 mm in a day is drizzle; from 10 mm it is proper rain; more than 50 mm in a few hours is the amount that floods streets.
Humidity
Relative humidity is how much water vapour the air holds compared with the most it can hold at that temperature. Above 80% sweat evaporates slowly and heat feels worse; below 30% your throat and eyes dry out.
Dew point
The dew point is the temperature at which the air would start to condense. The closer it is to the air temperature, the muggier it feels. Above 20 °C the air already feels heavy.
Feels like
"Feels like" combines temperature, wind and humidity: strong wind carries heat away from the body, so it feels colder than the thermometer; high humidity in the heat makes it feel warmer.
Wind
Wind is given as a speed and the direction it blows from. Up to 20 km/h you barely notice it; at 40 km/h it moves branches and parasols; above 60 km/h it brings down trees and roof tiles.
Cloud cover
Cloud cover as a percentage is how much of the sky is covered. Up to 20% is a clear sky; above 80% the sun barely gets through.
Chance of rain
The model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region. This column is our own reading: the global model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region, so we classify the day from the forecast symbol and the total in millimetres. It is not an official probability figure.

No climatology available for this coordinate.

Frequently asked questions

Will it rain tomorrow in Madison?
rain possible. Rain: 0.35 in. Low 53 °F, High 77 °F.
What is the temperature in Madison right now?
53 °F, fair. Feels like: 52 °F. Humidity: 82%.
What will the weather be like at the weekend in Madison?
Sat 17/10: cloudy, 39 °F / 61 °F, no rain expected.
How far ahead does this Madison forecast go?
This page shows 7 days. The model run used here is from 16/10/2026, 01:18 UTC, and the page fetches a new one every 30 minutes.

Nearby cities

Forecasts for places near Madison:

How to read this page

How to read the min and the max

The week’s high (77 °F) arrives in the afternoon, about two hours after solar noon; the low (39 °F) just before sunrise. Both are air temperature in the shade, two metres above ground — in direct sun or over asphalt a thermometer reads higher.

Where this number comes from

The Madison forecast comes from MET Norway, a partir do ECMWF HRES e, na área nórdica, do MEPS, run of 16/10/2026, 01:18 UTC. The month-by-month climate comes from NASA POWER, climatology of 2001–2020. Both are credited in full at the foot of this page.

What a forecast cannot promise

Out to two days accuracy is high; by day seven the trend matters more than the exact figure. For Madison the model publishes no rain probability, so the expectation column is our reading.

Severe weather warnings

This page is informational. For official warnings of storms, gales or flooding affecting Madison, go to your national weather service through the World Meteorological Organization warning portal.

WMO Severe Weather Information Centre

Understanding the weather and climate of Madison

Is this week in Madison above or below the October normal?

Within the week the highest maximum lands on Fri 16/10 (77 °F) and the lowest minimum on Sat 17/10 (39 °F). Forecast rain adds up to 0.58 in over the period. The wettest day is Fri 16/10, with 0.35 in.

What does the dew point say about how Madison feels?

Right now in Madison the air is at 53 °F with a dew point of 48 °F and relative humidity of 82%. With the two values that close, sweat evaporates slowly and the heat weighs more than the thermometer suggests — that is the working definition of muggy.

How far is Madison from Newark?

The nearest large city to Madison is Newark, about 21 km away in a straight line, to the east, with 281,944 inhabitants. In that band the temperature of the two rarely differs by more than a degree or two, but a summer downpour can hit one and miss the other: heat showers are only a few kilometres wide. Being larger, Newark shows up in more searches, and plenty of people end up reading its forecast assuming it covers Madison.

Words on this page

Apparent temperature

The temperature the body actually feels, rather than the one on the thermometer. It combines air temperature with wind, which carries heat away faster, and humidity, which slows the evaporation of sweat. That is why 30 °C in dry air with a breeze is easier than 28 °C in still, muggy air.

Apparent temperature

Dew point

The temperature air would have to cool to, at constant pressure and moisture, for water to start condensing. The closer the dew point sits to the air temperature, the less room the vapour has and the muggier the day feels.

Dew point

Millimetre of rain

The depth of water rain would leave on a flat surface with no run-off. One millimetre is one litre per square metre, no matter how large the area measured is.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Millimetre of rain

Relative humidity

How much water vapour the air holds compared with the most it could hold at that temperature, as a percentage. Because that ceiling rises with heat, the same amount of vapour reads high at dawn and low in the afternoon.

Relative humidity

Beaufort scale

A 0-to-12 scale that describes wind strength by what it visibly does: smoke rising straight up at 0, leaves moving at 3, large branches bending at 6, roof damage at 9, devastation at 12. It began at sea in the nineteenth century and now has an official equivalence in metres per second.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Beaufort scale

Forecast model

A program that solves the equations of the atmosphere on a grid of points and steps forward in time from the state observed now. Your city forecast is the model value at the nearest grid point, which is why two neighbouring towns get almost the same numbers.

Standard definition by MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) · Forecast model

Model run

The time the model was executed with the latest observations. Every forecast belongs to a run, and runs age: one from six hours ago knows nothing about the shower that started afterwards. It is the first thing to check when two sources disagree.

Standard definition by MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) · Model run

Climate normal

The average of a climate element — temperature, rainfall, humidity — computed over a long, standardised period, usually thirty years. It does not predict anything: it says what is typical for that place in that month, and gives you a ruler for calling a week warm or wet.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Climate normal

See the full weather glossary

Source, model and licence

Model
MET Norway, a partir do ECMWF HRES e, na área nórdica, do MEPS
Model run
16/10/2026, 01:18 UTC
Cities, coordinates and population
Dados de cidades: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

The page fetches fresh data every 30 minutes. Informational content. For severe weather warnings, follow your country’s official weather service and civil protection authority.