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How much rain fell in Buscot, Oxfordshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 5.0mm of rain forecast for the area around Buscot, heaviest in the hour to 11:00 (1.1mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated 05:05 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 Buscot | 0.0km | 0.0mm | 60.5mm | 83.3mm | 3.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Stanford in the Vale nr Stanford in the Vale | 13.5km | 0.0mm | 58.2mm | 80.7mm | 2.4mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Minster Lovell nr Minster Lovell | 14.2km | 0.0mm | 64.6mm | 92.6mm | 3.5mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 20.5mm.
15 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Buscot, against a full-month average of 17.2 rain days (based on 25 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 494 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 520 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 5% 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: 2012 (950 mm). Driest: 2011 (452 mm). Average: 671 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.
Buscot gets about 679 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 72 mm; driest March, 43 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: St Johns Lock, 0.1 km away: 0.10 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Thames →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Buscot's monitored area.
1 storm overflow within 5 km of the centre of Buscot's monitored area. The 1 with a live status is not 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: © Thames 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.
Village in Oxfordshire, England
Buscot is an English village and civil parish on the River Thames, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-east of Lechlade. Buscot was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Two houses there contain notable collections of paintings.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.0mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of Buscot.
October so far: 85.5mm vs 72.6mm October average — 18% 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 Buscot is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Buscot'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 Buscot, against a full-month average of 17.2 rain days.
2012 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 950 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 671 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 452 mm.
20 Jul 2007: 77.5 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 80.6 mm at one of them, during 2007 UK floods. 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 Buscot's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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