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How much rain fell in Boston, Lincolnshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 0.9mm of rain forecast for the area around Boston, heaviest in the hour to Tue 06:00 (0.5mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated 11:05 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 Boston | 0.0km | 0.0mm | 37.0mm | 64.0mm | 3.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr South Holland nr South Holland | 14.3km | 0.4mm | 44.5mm | 79.0mm | 2.5mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Holbeach CP nr Holbeach CP | 14.5km | 0.2mm | 43.2mm | 75.2mm | 3.2mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 10.6mm.
14 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Boston, against a full-month average of 18.3 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 420 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 496 mm by the same date in an average year (2012–2025) — 15% 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: 2019 (827 mm). Driest: 2013 (516 mm). Average: 635 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.
Boston gets about 612 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 66 mm; driest March, 35 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), 2.6 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
A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Boston's monitored area.
10 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Boston's monitored area. None of the 10 with a live status is discharging 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. Live status: © Anglian Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.
Town and port in Lincolnshire, England
Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It lies to the south-east of Lincoln, east of Nottingham and north-east of Peterborough. The town had a population of 45,339 at the 2021 census, while the borough had an estimated population of 66,900 at the ONS mid-2015 estimates. The Haven in Boston flows about 5 mi (8 km) to the Lincolnshire coast at The Wash, a bay between Lincolnshire and Norfolk.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.2mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of Boston.
October so far: 72.7mm vs 66.3mm October average — 10% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Boston is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Boston's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
14 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Boston, against a full-month average of 18.3 rain days.
2019 was the wettest year in the record since 2012, with 827 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 635 mm a year. The driest was 2013, with 516 mm.
10 Jun 2019: 73.8 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 79.6 mm at one of them. Records since 16 May 2011.
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 Boston's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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