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How much rain fell in Chartham, Kent? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 1.7mm of rain forecast for the area around Chartham, heaviest in the hour to Tue 09:00 (1.0mm).
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 Chartham | 0.0km | 1.0mm | 56.4mm | 98.2mm | 1.6mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Rough Common nr Rough Common | 4.5km | 1.6mm | 50.0mm | 99.1mm | 2.7mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Canterbury nr Canterbury | 6.6km | 1.8mm | 47.0mm | 99.6mm | 2.0mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 28.8mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Chartham, against a full-month average of 18.6 rain days (based on 22 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 557 mm (1 Jan to 24 Oct), against 551 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — about average.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 8 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2000 (1,016 mm). Driest: 2003 (413 mm). Average: 744 mm a year.
Daily totals are the average of 8 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.
Chartham gets about 693 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 82 mm; driest March, 40 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), 2.2 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: Horton weir, 0.3 km away: 0.31 m Steady.
Every gauge on the Great Stour →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Chartham's monitored area.
3 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Chartham'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: © Southern 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 and civil parish in Kent, England
Chartham is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. It is situated on the Ashford side of the city, and is in the North Downs area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 2.3 mi (4 km) south west of Canterbury, England. The Great Stour Way path passes through the village. A paper mill in the village that had specialised in the production of tracing paper since 1938 has in 2022 closed down. There are numerous arable farms and orchards in the parish. The village has an unstaffed station, Chartham, and has recently upgraded its staffed level crossing to an automatic barrier. It has an outlying locality sharing in many of the community resources, Chartham Hatch.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
1.3mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 8 rain gauges within 15km of Chartham.
October so far: 111.0mm vs 86.1mm October average — 29% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 8 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Chartham is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Chartham'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 Chartham, against a full-month average of 18.6 rain days.
2000 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 1,016 mm from the average of 8 local rain gauges, against an average of 744 mm a year. The driest was 2003, with 413 mm.
24 Aug 2013: 41.3 mm on average across 8 local rain gauges, and up to 61.2 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 Chartham's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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