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About
Cranston, formerly known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. Its official population in the 2020 United States Census was 82,934, making it the second-largest city in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Cranston. Cranston is a part of the Providence metropolitan area.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cranston, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Cranston
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
17° / 8°
UV High
Sat
Overcast
23° / 8°
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Sun
Overcast
29° / 15°
UV High
Mon
Overcast
25° / 14°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
33° / 15°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
34° / 21°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / 0°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.5h
05:26 – 19:57local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Cranston
8 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport (PVD) at 7 km.
Getting around Cranston
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
AmtrakRIPTAPeter Pan Bonanza DivisionVIA RailGreyhoundFlixbusTrain de CharlevoixMBTAAmtrak Chartered VehicleB Metro
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- Site credits →
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