Willow Grove Webcam – Watch the Weather Near Philadelphia

The Willow Grove Webcam streams around the clock from the front yard of the Willow Grove Weather Center, a home weather station in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 21 kilometers (13 miles) north of Philadelphia. The camera looks over a lawn with a lamp post and a cluster of flags, the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack and the Canadian maple leaf among them, to a residential street corner with a stop sign, utility poles and a grassy rise on the far side. Cars pull up to the stop sign and turn, joggers cross, and the trees across the road carry red and orange leaves in fall. The station frames the picture with its own data: the time and date, temperature, wind, humidity and pressure, a regional weather map and a forecast window. The stream also carries live sound from the street.

About Willow Grove

Willow Grove is a community of 13,730 people (2020 census) in Montgomery County, split between Abington Township and Upper Moreland Township. It covers 9.3 square kilometers (3.6 square miles) at an elevation of 82 meters (269 feet). Route 611, known here as Old York Road and Easton Road, runs through town, and Willow Grove station sits on SEPTA’s Warminster Line of Regional Rail.

The name is best known from Willow Grove Park, an amusement park that opened in 1896 as a trolley park, built to encourage weekend riders on the trolley line. It was billed as the “Music Capital of the World”, and John Philip Sousa and his band played there several times between 1901 and 1926, drawing as many as 50,000 people a day. The park ran for about 80 years before closing in the mid-1970s, and Willow Grove Park Mall opened on the site in August 1982.

The Willow Grove Weather Center is a non-profit station that, by its operator’s account, has sent data to media outlets and government agencies since 1997. Its street camera has streamed since December 18, 2017, and readings also go to Weather Underground as station KPAWILLO7. On December 30, 2024 the station joined the Emergency Alert System network, so National Weather Service alerts can break into the stream’s audio at any time. The town’s name also lives on in the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, which became Horsham Air National Guard Station in September 2011.

Weather and Climate in Willow Grove

Willow Grove has four distinct seasons. January days average about 5°C (40°F), with nights near -3°C (26°F), and snow can cover the lawn and the street corner; the stream’s YouTube thumbnail, taken in February 2021, shows the stop sign standing in a snowy yard. Spring warms quickly, from highs near 17°C (62°F) in April to 22°C (72°F) in May. Summer is warm, with July highs around 30°C (86°F) and nights near 21°C (69°F).

The station also runs a separate lightning detection display, usually online from April through September, that maps strikes within 400 kilometers (250 miles) of Philadelphia. Fall brings October highs near 19°C (67°F) and lows around 10°C (51°F), dropping to 12°C (54°F) by day in November, while the trees across the street turn color. Rain and snow are spread across the year at roughly 80 to 130 millimeters (3 to 5 inches) a month, with July the wettest.

Things to Do Near Willow Grove

Willow Grove Park Mall stands on the grounds of the old amusement park, and a merry-go-round installed in 2001 is a nod to the rides that once stood there. For green space, Lorimer Park in Abington Township covers 230 acres (93 hectares) along Pennypack Creek. It was created in 1938 from a bequest by George Horace Lorimer, the longtime editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post, and it borders Fox Chase Farm, one of only two working farms left in Philadelphia County. The Pennypack Trail, a crushed-stone path, follows the same creek from Rockledge through Abington Township and Bryn Athyn.

Colonial history is close by too. Graeme Park, at 859 County Line Road in nearby Horsham, was built in 1722 by Sir William Keith, then governor of Pennsylvania, as a summer residence. It is the only surviving residence of a colonial-era Pennsylvania governor and a National Historic Landmark on 140 acres (57 hectares). For a day in the city, SEPTA trains from Willow Grove station run into Philadelphia on the Warminster Line.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What county is Willow Grove, PA in?

Willow Grove is in Montgomery County, in southeastern Pennsylvania, and straddles Abington Township and Upper Moreland Township. It uses the ZIP code 19090.

What can you see on the Willow Grove Webcam?

A front lawn with a lamp post, garden ornaments and several flags in the foreground, then a residential intersection with a stop sign, crosswalk markings and utility poles, and a grassy rise with trees on the far side. In fall 2026 the lot beyond the corner was a construction site behind orange fencing. Panels around the edges show the time, the station’s current readings, air quality, a regional weather map and a local forecast.

What is the Willow Grove Weather Center?

A non-profit home weather station in Willow Grove that, according to its operator, has supplied weather data since 1997. It has streamed this street camera since December 2017 and is part of the Emergency Alert System network, with weekly alert tests on Mondays at about 11:01 a.m.

Does the Willow Grove Webcam show weather radar?

It shows a regional weather map of the Mid-Atlantic in the lower-left corner, which the operator says updates every 15 minutes. Below it, a forecast window fed by a satellite receiver cycles through the local forecast, almanac figures such as sunrise and sunset, and conditions in other U.S. cities. It is not an interactive radar.

What is the weather like in Willow Grove, PA?

Winters are cold, with January highs about 5°C (40°F) and lows near -3°C (26°F), and summers are warm, with July highs around 30°C (86°F). Spring and fall are mild, with April highs near 17°C (62°F) and October highs near 19°C (67°F).

Does the webcam show Willow Grove Park Mall?

No. The camera looks at a residential street corner, and neither the mall nor the grounds of the old Willow Grove Park amusement park are in view.

How far is Willow Grove from Philadelphia?

About 21 kilometers (13 miles), with Willow Grove to the north of the city. SEPTA Regional Rail trains on the Warminster Line stop at Willow Grove station.

Source: Willow Grove Weather Center