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How much rain fell in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: little or no rain forecast for the area around Bury St Edmunds (under 0.2mm).
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 Bury St Edmunds | 0.1km | 1.2mm | 41.7mm | 75.5mm | 0.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr West Suffolk nr West Suffolk | 14.4km | 3.2mm | 52.0mm | 81.5mm | 0.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Lavenham nr Lavenham | 14.5km | 1.1mm | 43.7mm | 80.7mm | 0.1mm |
Daily totals 28 Sep–27 Oct. Wettest day: 16.7mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Bury St Edmunds, against a full-month average of 17.4 rain days (based on 14 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 387 mm (1 Jan to 26 Oct), against 485 mm by the same date in an average year (2001–2025) — 20% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 4 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2023 (815 mm). Driest: 2011 (481 mm). Average: 610 mm a year.
Daily totals are the average of 4 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.
Bury St Edmunds gets about 633 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 66 mm; driest April, 38 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), 0.2 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: Sicklesmere, 1.7 km away: 0.24 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Lark →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Bury St Edmunds's monitored area.
3 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Bury St Edmunds's monitored area. None of the 3 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 in Suffolk, England
Bury St Edmunds, commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a cathedral town, market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The town is best known for Bury St Edmunds Abbey and St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich of the Church of England, with the episcopal see at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The town, originally called Beodericsworth, was built on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin around 1080. It is known for brewing and malting and for a British Sugar processing factory, where Silver Spoon sugar is produced. The town is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and tourism is a major part of the economy. The built up area had a population of 41,280 at the 2021 census.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
1.7mm of rain fell yesterday (27 Oct 2026), from the average of 4 rain gauges within 15km of Bury St Edmunds.
October so far: 78.0mm vs 69.1mm October average — 13% wetter. Figures are the average of 4 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Bury St Edmunds is the nearest rain gauge, 0.1km from the centre of Bury St Edmunds'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 Bury St Edmunds, against a full-month average of 17.4 rain days.
2023 was the wettest year in the record since 2001, with 815 mm from the average of 4 local rain gauges, against an average of 610 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 481 mm.
27 Jun 2017: 42.4 mm on average across 4 local rain gauges, and up to 54.8 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 Bury St Edmunds's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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