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How much rain fell in Brampton, Cambridgeshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 0.4mm of rain forecast for the area around Brampton, heaviest in the hour to Tue 06:00 (0.3mm).
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 Brampton | 0.0km | 0.0mm | 37.6mm | 66.1mm | 3.7mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr St. Ives nr St. Ives | 9.7km | 0.0mm | 32.6mm | 57.2mm | 2.6mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Swavesey nr Swavesey | 15.3km | 0.0mm | 39.7mm | 69.0mm | 2.6mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 9.8mm.
15 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Brampton, against a full-month average of 15.5 rain days (based on 19 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 364 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 424 mm by the same date in an average year (2007–2025) — 14% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 2 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2012 (722 mm). Driest: 2011 (376 mm). Average: 547 mm a year. Striped years have gaps in the record, so no total is shown for them.
Daily totals are the average of 2 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.
Brampton gets about 568 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 58 mm; driest March, 33 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), 1.6 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
Nearest gauge on it: Brampton Sluice, 0.3 km away: 0.15 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Great Ouse →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Brampton's monitored area.
8 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Brampton's monitored area. None of the 8 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.
Suburban village in Cambridgeshire, England
Brampton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 2 miles (3 km) south-west of Huntingdon within Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. According to the 2011 UK census, Brampton had a population of 4,862 A 2019 estimate puts it at 5,462.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.0mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 2 rain gauges within 15km of Brampton.
October so far: 61.7mm vs 61.7mm October average — 0% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 2 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Brampton is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Brampton's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
15 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Brampton, against a full-month average of 15.5 rain days.
2012 was the wettest year in the record since 2007, with 722 mm from the average of 2 local rain gauges, against an average of 547 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 376 mm.
22 Jul 2013: 53.8 mm on average across 2 local rain gauges, and up to 57.2 mm at one of them. Records since 21 Dec 2006.
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 Brampton's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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