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How much rain fell in Aspley Guise, Central Bedfordshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 1.9mm of rain forecast for the area around Aspley Guise, heaviest in the hour to 19:00 (0.8mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated 17:05 UK time. It is a forecast, not a measurement, and not a Met Office forecast. Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Daily totals for UK days from the same computer model; "dry" means under 0.2mm. Forecasts further ahead are less certain.
| Gauge | Distance | Yesterday | 7 days | October | Today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainfall gauge nr Woburn nr Woburn | 0.4km | 11.4mm | 44.2mm | 68.2mm | 8.4mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Ampthill nr Ampthill | 9.6km | 9.0mm | 34.0mm | 55.6mm | 9.2mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Drayton Parslow nr Drayton Parslow | 11.2km | 16.2mm | 47.2mm | 76.2mm | 8.6mm |
Daily totals 24 Sep–23 Oct. Wettest day: 14.9mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Woburn, against a full-month average of 19.0 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 418 mm (1 Jan to 23 Oct), against 541 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 23% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 3 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2024 (997 mm). Driest: 2022 (537 mm). Average: 699 mm a year. Striped years have gaps in the record, so no total is shown for them.
Daily totals are the average of 3 local rain gauges, for UTC days; one gauge can catch much more than the average. A storm's figure adds up the rain measured on its dates, from our list of Met Office named storms and major floods — other weather on those days counts too.
Aspley Guise gets about 699 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 75 mm; driest March, 42 mm). That is drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year.
Monthly averages in mm. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.9 km from the town's gauge centre. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UK comparison: Met Office HadUK-Grid areal series, 1991-2020, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rain gauge River gauge Storm overflow
Nearest gauge on it: Bletchley, 6.5 km away: 0.33 m Rising slightly ▲.
Every gauge on the River Ouzel →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Aspley Guise's monitored area.
1 storm overflow within 5 km of the centre of Aspley Guise's monitored area. None of them has a live status we can show right now.
Event Duration Monitors show when an overflow may be spilling; they do not confirm it, and this is not advice on water quality. A live status older than two hours counts as no current status. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.
Village in Bedfordshire, England
Aspley Guise is a village and civil parish in the west of Central Bedfordshire, England. In addition to the village of Aspley Guise itself, the civil parish also includes part of the town of Woburn Sands, the rest of which is in the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. Together with Woburn Sands and Aspley Heath, it forms part of the Milton Keynes urban area. It is centred 6 miles (9.7 km) east southeast of Central Milton Keynes and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the M1 junction 13. It has its own railway station on the Marston Vale Line, and an historic centre with 29 listed buildings.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
12.2mm of rain fell yesterday (23 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of Aspley Guise.
October so far: 66.7mm vs 73.5mm October average — 9% drier (the average covers the whole month; we are 24 days in). Figures are the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Woburn is the nearest rain gauge, 0.4km from the centre of Aspley Guise's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Woburn, against a full-month average of 19.0 rain days.
2024 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 997 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 699 mm a year. The driest was 2022, with 537 mm.
22 Sep 2024: 72.2 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 93.2 mm at one of them. Records since 1 Jan 2000.
Rainfall data: Environment Agency rain gauges, synced every 15 minutes. Daily totals are computed overnight (UTC days); "today so far" is live. Gauge distances are straight-line from the centre of Aspley Guise's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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